This meeting is an environmental mass spectrometry special interest group (EMSSIG) series event forming a part of the BMSS SIG meetings and is scheduled for one day. The main theme will focus on Recent Advances in the Methodology for Environmental and Food Matrix Analysis. The meeting will be linked with the Food and Nutrition SIG coordinated by Dr Simon Hird. Also the meeting will form part of a conference week, March 22 – 26, 2010, of three meetings organised by Professor Chris Smith, which highlight also Nanotechnology and Food, and, Food Science and Technology.