Environmental Pollution: Focus on Human and Animal Health

Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue welcomes studies on the presence and accumulation of pollutants in the veterinary and human fields in order to give a comprehensible comparison of the presence of toxicants in different conditions. Pharmaceutical products can also display endocrine activity and can be of natural origin (e.g., phytoestrogens present in soy) or artificial. Examples of endocrine disruptors sometimes found in food include synthetic herbicides, environmental pollutants such as PCBs and bisphenol.

The study of toxic substances of different origins for risk assessment, the definition of safeguarding animal welfare and the environment, the influence of toxic substances on livestock production and the possibility of using animals as biological indicators of environmental contamination states such as mineral elements, mycotoxins and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in different animal species and in foods of animal origin (milk, cheese, fish, eggs, etc.) are the foci of this Special Issue. In addition, pharmaceutical products, which include antimicrobials such as antibiotics, contraceptive hormones, non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, lipid regulators, anti-cancer drugs, anti-epileptic drugs, and regulating blood pressure drugs, represent pollutants in both the human and veterinary fields. Veterinary drugs and those for human use are introduced into the environment when contaminated manure or sewage sludge is spread over the fields. Given the widespread use of drugs in industrial livestock production, their release into the environment is a source of great concern.

Dr. Patrizia Licata
Dr. Enrico Gugliandolo
Guest Editors

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