Food is the main source of different elements which are essential, trace and fundamental for human diet and health. The type and level of elements in foods indicates whether it’s toxic or not. Therefore, determination of elements and their amounts is crucial for food safety and quality. In order to fulfill the increasing demand on multi-elemental information for product monitoring, rapid and sensitive analytical techniques which are capable of detecting major and trace elements with good precision and accuracy are required. In this review, the most recent literature about the use of LIBS for the analysis of food and capabilities and limitations of LIBS on foods have been reported. This review provides comprehensive overview of the applications on food quality and fraud monitoring of several foods, sampling techniques and some limitations of LIBS. Furthermore, it provides a critical outlook on the developments to analyze food matrices with proper sample preparations.

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LIBS在食品分析中的能力和局限性

食物是人类饮食和健康必不可少的，微量的和根本的各种元素的主要来源。食物中元素的类型和含量表明它是否有毒。因此，确定元素及其含量对于食品安全和质量至关重要。为了满足对用于产品监视的多元素信息的不断增长的需求，需要一种能够以高精度和高准确度检测主要和痕量元素的快速灵敏的分析技术。在这篇综述中，已经报道了有关使用LIBS来分析食物以及食物中LIBS的功能和局限性的最新文献。这篇综述全面概述了食品质量和几种食品的欺诈监测，抽样技术以及LIBS的局限性方面的应用。