Chemical Contaminants and Food Quality

Dear Colleagues,

Chemical contaminants may occur in foods from various sources, such as the use of agrochemicals, environment pollution, food processing, food packaging and natural toxins, as well as adulterating. They seriously impact food quality and typically pose various health concerns. An investigation of these contaminants is very important for controlling them in foods and ensuring the consumer’s health.

This Special Issue aims to publish high-quality research articles and reviews that seek to address recent developments on the contaminants, their detection, formation mechanisms, and how they pollute foods, as well as a control strategy.

Potential topics include but are not limited to:

• Pesticides, veterinary drug and herbicides, as well as plant growth regulators, their detection methods and procedures to pollute foods;
• Heavy metal pollution and their effects on food quality;
• Endocrine disruptors derived from environment pollution, their detection and pollution behavior in foods;
• The effects of food processing, especially thermal processing, on the formation of contaminants;
• Safety management of hazardous substances produced during food processing;
• Contaminants migrated from food packaging;
• Natural toxins from edible plants and animal foods, their removal or deactivation;
• Food adulteration identification and authenticity evaluation.

Dr. Chang Li
Prof. Dr. Fatih Oz
Guest Editor

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