A Review on Recent Trends in Advancement of Bio-Sensory Techniques Toward Pesticide Detection

Aptasensors for the Detection of Environmental Contaminants of High Concern in Water Bodies: A Systematic Review

“…Regarding the risks for the ecosystems and human health due to the presence of environmental contaminants in the hydric system, the World Health Organization (WHO) and the governments of different regions have established minimum concentration levels of some of these substances in water [14][15][16][17][18]. The concentrations allowed in water bodies, depending on the type of compound, are, generally, in the order of pico-to micro-molar in heavy metals [18][19][20], pesticides (insecticides, fungicides, herbicides) [21][22][23], pharmaceutical substances (anti-inflammatories, analgesics, antibiotics, hormones, diuretics, anxiolytics) [24][25][26], plasticizers and micro-and nano-plastics [27,28].…”

Multivariate Optimization of Electrochemical Biosensors for the Determination of Compounds Related to Food Safety—A Review

“…A third group of analytes considered for ensuring food safety are pesticides, emerging contaminants (synthetic or naturally occurring chemicals or any microorganisms that are not commonly monitored in the environment but have the potential to enter the environment and cause known or suspected adverse ecological and/or human health effects), and other compounds (chemicals which do not fit into the other categories mentioned, but are presented in the literature as indicators of food quality) such as L-glutamate, 6-benzyladenine, and carbaryl, among others [35][36][37]), with a concentration range that varied between 12 and 13%. These groups of compounds, particularly pesticides, have gained a lot of importance in recent years, and many studies have been developed regarding these analytes [16,38,39]. The last group of analytes, which includes antibiotics, viruses, heavy metals, mono-and di-saccharides, and hormones, represents a smaller portion (between 1 and 3%) of the electrochemical biosensors developed to food safety, accounting for a total of 10% of the published papers on this topic.…”