Analytics
Analytics is a sub-area of chemistry and is referred to there as analytical chemistry. It deals with the examination of various samples for their chemical composition. In agriculture and food processing, analytical chemistry plays a central role in ensuring food safety. For certain substances such as plant protection products there are legal limit values that must not be exceeded in food or drinking water.
Due to advances in measurement technology, substances in the picogram range (trillionths of a gram) can now be detected. As a result, the measured value 0 practically no longer occurs in analyses. The improved traceability strives towards "infinitely small". A sugar cube (5 grams), evenly distributed in Lake Constance, can be detected at any measuring point on the lake. That is why the detection of substances in food or in drinking water alone does not say anything about possible health risks. Or as Paracelsus said, "The dose makes the poison".
Terms from the glossary
- Abiotic / Biotic Stress
- Agroecology
- Analytics
- Bees
- Bio-dynamic agriculture
- Biocides
- Biodiversity
- Biologicals
- Biotechnology
- Carcinogenic
- Causality
- Chemophobia
- Cisgenic Plants
- Climate change
- Conventional agriculture
- Correlation
- CRISPR/Cas9
- Digital Agriculture
- Flower strips
- Food Loss
- Food security
- Food Waste
- Gene editing
- Genetic engineering
- Hazard
- Highly Hazardous Pesticides (HHP)
- Insect deaths
- Integrated Pest Management
- Limit values
- Metabolites
- Molecular Pharming
- Mutation breeding
- Organic farming
- Organic pesticides
- Pesticide
- Plant breeding
- Plant protection products
- Poison cocktail
- Population growth
- Precautionary principle
- Precision Fermentation
- Regenerative agriculture
- Resilience in the food system
- Resource efficiency
- Risk
- Rural exodus
- Seed treatment, seed dressing
- Species diversity
- Sustainability
- Synthetic pesticides
- Taxonomy
- The Green Revolution
- Transgenic plants
- Urban Farming
- Water scarcity
- Weeds