| ATC | Anatomical Therapeutic Chemical (classification system) |
| bw | body weight |
| CV | cross-validation (for model) |
| Det% | detection percentage |
| EC | European Commission |
| EFSA | European Food Safety Authority |
| EWI | estimated weekly intake |
| H2O2 | hydrogen peroxide |
| HNO3 | nitric acid |
| ICP | inductively coupled plasma |
| ICP-MS | inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry |
| LC | liquid chromatography |
| LC-MS | liquid chromatography–mass spectrometry |
| LC-MS/MS | liquid chromatography–tandem mass spectrometry |
| MIC | minimum inhibitory concentration |
| MRM | multiple reaction monitoring |
| PCA | principal component analysis |
| PhACs | pharmaceutically active compounds |
| PLS-DA | partial least squares–discriminant analysis |
| PTWI | provisional tolerable weekly intake |
| QTRAP® | hybrid triple quadrupole/linear ion trap mass spectrometer |
| TWI | tolerable weekly intake |
| VIP | variable importance in projection |
| TWI (%) | percentage of the tolerable weekly intake |
| USA | United States of America |