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Course, academic year 2025/2026
  
   
Special Food Analysis - AM323015
Title: Special Food Analysis
Guaranteed by: Department of Food Analysis and Nutrition (323)
Faculty: Faculty of Food and Biochemical Technology
Actual: from 2023 to 2026
Semester: winter
Points: winter s.:4
E-Credits: winter s.:4
Examination process: winter s.:
Hours per week, examination: winter s.:3/0, Ex [HT]
Capacity: unlimited / unknown (unknown)
Min. number of students: unlimited
Qualifications:  
State of the course: taught
Language: English
Teaching methods: full-time
Level:  
Additional information: https://e-learning.vscht.cz/
Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan
enabled for web enrollment
Guarantor: Poustka Jan prof. Dr. Ing.
Koplík Richard prof. Dr. Ing.
Interchangeability : M323015, N323034, S323034
Is interchangeable with: M323015
This subject contains the following additional online materials
Annotation -
The course provides a systematic overview of advanced analytical methods used in food analysis. Attention is given to individual steps of the analytical process, the design of analytical procedures, and the evaluation of method performance characteristics. The course also covers laboratory sample processing and the selection of appropriate approaches with respect to the type of food matrix and target analytes. The main part of the course focuses on separation techniques, particularly chromatographic and electromigration methods, including their analytical and preparative applications and their coupling with mass spectrometry. Furthermore, spectroscopic methods of molecular and atomic analysis as well as electrochemical methods are discussed. The final part of the course is devoted to analytical procedures used for the determination of selected groups of compounds in foods, including proteins, peptides, phenolic compounds, alkaloids, organic acids, additives, nanomaterials, and contaminants, and to the interpretation and critical evaluation of analytical data.
Last update: Stupák Michal (27.01.2026)
Course completion requirements -

Attendance at lectures is recommended, but not monitored.

Last update: Stupák Michal (27.01.2026)
Literature -

Recommended:

  • Kirk, R.S., Sawyer, R.. Pearson's Composition and Analysis of Foods. : Longman, 1991, s. ISBN 0-582-40910-1.
  • Wang, J.. Analytical Electrochemistry. New York: VCH, Weiheim, 1994, s. ISBN 1-56081-575-2.
  • Silverstein, R.M.. Spectrometric Identification of Organic Compounds, 7th edition. : Wiley, 2005, s. ISBN 978-0-471-39362-7.
  • Pavia, D.L. et al.. Introduction to Spectroscopy, 4th edition. CA, USA: Brooks/Cole Belmont, 2009, s. ISBN 978-0-495-11478-9.
  • Belitz, H.-D., Grosch, W., Schieberle, P.. Food Chemistry, 4th ed.. Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 2009, s. ISBN 9783540699347.
  • Otles, S.. Methods of Analysis of Food Components and Additives. : CRC Press, 2005, s. ISBN 9780203503751.

Last update: prepocet_literatura.php (19.12.2024)
Teaching methods - Czech

Speciální analýza potravin je předmět, který propojuje teoretické poznatky z oblasti analytické chemie s praktickými aspekty instrumentální analýzy potravin. Výuka probíhá formou přednášek, v nichž jsou systematicky prezentovány principy analytických metod, jejich metodické uspořádání a oblasti použití při analýze potravin. Důraz je kladen na pochopení analytického procesu, správnou volbu metody s ohledem na potravinovou matrici a interpretaci získaných výsledků.

Last update: Stupák Michal (27.01.2026)
Requirements to the exam -

The exam consists of a mandatory written and oral part. To be eligible for the oral part of the exam, students must score at least 50 points in the written part (if less than 50 points are achieved, the exam is graded F). If the oral part is unsuccessful, only this part can be retaken.

Last update: Stupák Michal (27.01.2026)
Syllabus -

1. Analytical process, analytical procedure, performance characteristics

2. Laboratory techniques of sample handling

3. Chromatographic separation - preparative and analytical methods

4. Electromigration separation - preparative and analytical methods

5. Hyphenation of separation methods and mass spectrometry

6. Molecular absorption spectrometry - UV/VIS

7. Infrared spectrometry

8. Nuclear magnetic resonance spectrometry

9. Methods of atomic spectrometry

10. Electrochemical methods - potentiometry, conductometry, voltammetry, amperometry

11. Methods of peptides and proteins analysis

12. Methods of phenols and flavonoids analysis

13. Methods of alkaloids and organic acids analysis

14. Methods of additives including nanomaterials and contaminants analysis

Last update: Kubová Petra (30.01.2018)
Learning resources -

https://e-learning.vscht.cz/

Belitz H.-D., Grosch W., Schieberle P.: Food Chemistry, 4nd ed., Springer-Verlag, Berlin 2009 (available as an e-book in the library of ICT Prague, ISBN 9783540699347)

Otles S. (editor): Methods of Analysis of Food Components and Additives, CRC Press, 2005 (available as an e-book in the library of ICT Prague, ISBN 9780203503751)

Last update: Poustka Jan (13.09.2023)
Learning outcomes -

Students will be able to:

  • Understand principles of sample preparation methods and their applications in food analysis.
  • Understand principles of instrumental methods and their applications in food analysis.
  • Understand characteristics and analysis of peptides, proteins, phenols, flavonoids, organic acids, alkaloids, additives, contaminants and nanoparticles.
Last update: Kubová Petra (30.01.2018)
Registration requirements -

Analytical Chemistry I; Food and Natural Products Analysis

Last update: Kubová Petra (30.01.2018)
Teaching methods
Activity Credits Hours
Konzultace s vyučujícími 0.5 14
Účast na přednáškách 1.5 42
Příprava na přednášky, semináře, laboratoře, exkurzi nebo praxi 0.5 14
Příprava na zkoušku a její absolvování 1.5 42
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