Mass Spectrometry as a Tool to Ensure Food Safety: Practical Aspects of Application on The Example of the Work of FGBU “VGNKI”

When ensuring the safety of food products, the list of regulated contaminants is very extensive: pharmaceuticals (antibiotics, non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, coccidiostatics, thyreostatics, β-adrenostimulants, antihelminthic agents, etc.), pesticides, toxic elements, hormones, polychlorinated biphenyls, dioxins, natural toxins (zoo-, phyto- and mycotoxins, toxins of bacterial bacteria, etc.). ), pesticides, toxic elements, hormones, polychlorinated biphenyls, dioxins, natural toxins (zoo-, phyto- and mycotoxins, toxins of bacterial origin, biogenic amines), etc. The main means of determining the contaminants in food raw materials and food products when establishing compliance of their content with hygienic standards is laboratory control. Mass spectrometry has been the most effective tool of laboratory control both in Russia and abroad for more than 20 years. The review considers the methods developed by Federal State Budgetary Institution “The Russian State Center for Animal Feed and Drug Standardization and Quality” (FGBU “VGNKI”) using mass spectrometry, which are of the greatest interest from the point of view of implementation of food safety monitoring in the Russian Federation, as well as promising directions of research work taking into account the main problems and achievements in the field of mass spectrometry.