12 stakeholders to act on improving natural resources and ensure enduring socioeconomic growth and planet protection (9).Another trend that might shape the future structure of monitoring systems is citizen science, i.e., collaboration and participation of citizens in scientific practices and research, for instance with the development of consumer-operable testing devices (10). Decentralized consumer-based testing provides individuals with the possibility of personalized point-of-care (POC) testing and screening diagnostics in many fields (11), including, but not limited to, food safety (12) and clinical applications (13, 14). On top of that, use of a ubiquitous readout system, such as smartphones, potentially in combination with wearable sensors, induces semi-quantitative possibilities and increases confidence in interpreting the result (15). Apart from the described citizen science approach during product deployment, crowdsourcing in science during the research and development (R&D) stage can improve practices and results, influencing directly the targeted population ( 10).An additional challenge for the future monitoring systems is climate changeinduced changes. Results of climate change vary from extreme drought to rise of sea levels, which amend the quality of life of individuals worldwide (16). Especially in terms of monitoring systems, the food safety sector, involving farming, crop production, and the nutritional content of crops, has already been impacted by long-term variations in temperature, humidity, and the frequency of extreme weather phenomena (17). Climate change may alter crops' susceptibility to germs, toxin-producing bacteria and mycotoxin-producing fungi, risking consumers' health. Even marine species are in danger because of the proliferation of toxin-producing algae because of increased temperatures (18). The results of climate change on crop production are already evident in literature where a 25% of global agricultural crop contamination with mycotoxin is estimated to be above the legal limits (19), underlining the need for fast, unambiguous identification and quantification of food contaminants.It is safe to assume that current monitoring protocols will be insufficient in the future because of the increased demand for official control from monitoring laboratories that will be caused due to the aforementioned changes. Already, despite its elaborate monitoring procedures, the food-safety system has been stressed, with incidences of food safety-related scandals and contaminated commodities reaching the market (20, 21). Combining screening and confirmation methods, two seemingly incompatible orthogonal techniques, provides improved and accurate methods with high throughput, sensitivity, robustness, and ease of use, which are necessary for future monitoring systems. To offer an elaborate background and understanding, the following parts of the introduction describe the classic analytical chemistry techniques that are coupled in order to develop the novel approaches discussed in the research c...