Environmental Mass Spectrometry: Emerging Contaminants and Current Issues.

The article examines several developments in environmental mass spectrometry over the period of 2004 to 2005 in the U.S. Since the "Analytical Chemistry" periodical's policy limits reviews to include 100 to 200 significant references and to mainly focus on new trends, this paper will be limited in its focus to new, emerging contaminants and environmental issues of the most current research. Analytical methods include an increasing use of time-of-flight mass spectrometry and quadropole for structural elucidation and compound confirmation.