Towards the use of ion mobility mass spectrometry derived collision cross section as a screening approach for unambiguous identification of targeted pesticides in food.

The screening approach proposed in this study is unconventional and based on large mass accuracy (20 ppm) and retention time windows (0.5 min) to capture, in a first step, a maximum of detected compounds. Compounds of interest are then identified by comparing measured collision cross sections with the measured reference library collision cross sections (with relative error tolerance lower than 2%).