Luca Campone

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About Luca Campone

Main research topics are: • Quality control and safe of foodstuff matrices, food supplements, dietetic products and water: the activity involves the development of instrumental analytical techniques applied both to water and foodstuff matrices and to characterization of Mediterranean typical productions by using of different chromatographic techniques as GC, GC-MS, UHPLC-DAD, UHPLC-MS. The quality control regard the investigation on environmental contaminants in mineral water, surface water, thermal water, air, foodstuff, animal feeding, etc. and the analytes principally considered are PCBs, mycotoxins, phytopharmaceutic derivatives, drug abuse, Endocrin disruptor. • Expertise of several modern extraction techniques and samples preparation tecniques such as supercritical fluid extraction, pressurized liquid extraction, pressurized hot water extraction, solid phase extraction off/on line and dispersive liquid liquid microextraction. These techniques meet many of today's requirements in terms of environmental sustainability, speed and automation. For all these techniques both analytical and industrial applications has been developed and applied. • Chemical, nutritional and biological characterization of food plant species: the investigation involves the analysis of primary metabolites to evaluate nutritional value, isolation and identification of secondary metabolites, considered chemical markers, useful to quality control and development of integrated analytical techniques for determination of qualitative and quantitative profile of plants dried extracts used in food integration. • Study of biological properties of food plants and/or their components to identify the components responsible of nutritional, functional, therapeutic and/or toxic effects and evaluation of their biological and pharmacological activity.