Microbial Degradation of Environmental Pollutants
A special issue of Life (ISSN 2075-1729). This special issue belongs to the section "Microbiology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 June 2023) | Viewed by 1495
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Emerging contaminants are a group of natural and synthetic chemicals and biological agents that are not or poorly regulated. These substances are currently of concern because they have known or suspected adverse impacts on the environment and on human health. The list of these substances is particularly long and includes antibiotics; natural and synthetic hormones; endocrine disruptors; cosmetics and personal care products; industrial products, such as surfactants, additives, flame retardants and nanomaterials; microplastics; and pathogens. The number of chemical substances concerned is constantly changing, both in terms of parent substances and their degradation products, for example, resulting from biological treatment. Due to the advantages offered by these products in everyday life, many of them are employed and released continuously into the environment, even at very low concentrations, and some can cause chronic toxicity, endocrine disruption in humans and aquatic organisms, and the development of antibiotic-resistant bacteria. It is, therefore, necessary to mobilize efforts to protect human health and biodiversity.
In this Special Issue, advances in understanding the degradation pathways, bioremediation and risk control of emerging contaminants will be presented. Finally, this Special Issue will strengthen the environmental benchmark research of emerging contaminants based on human health and ecological environment safety, and strengthen research on management technologies to provide support for the environmental security of emerging contaminants and decision-making support for the global implementation of the convention.
Prof. Dr. Ning Hou
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- emerging contaminants
- biological technology
- biodegradation
- environmental risk
- health risk assessment
