Kodjovi Ayena

Comparative contaminant and chemical profiling of commercial yerba mate infusions prepared as chimarrão and tereré from Southern Common Market countries.

Yerba mate (Ilex paraguariensis A. St.-Hil.) is widely consumed in South America and contains diverse naturally occurring compounds, while potentially hazardous contaminants may be introduced during cultivation, processing, and commercialization. In this study, a direct immersion solid-phase microextraction coupled wit...