Heavy Metals and Potentially Toxic Elements (PTE) in Foods

Dear Colleagues,

Our planet faces multiple challenges that require comprehensive, cohesive and integrated multi-actor strategies. One Health is a collaborative, multisectoral, and transdisciplinary approach with the goal of achieving optimal health outcomes, whilst recognizing the interconnection between people, animals, plants, and their shared environment.

Among these global challenges, food security and food safety stand out, along with environmental protection. Heavy metals and potentially toxic metals are food contaminants that are present in food because of their presence in the environment and the dietary exposure to these contaminants can lead to health risks. To promote food safety and human health, novel approaches for the assessment of these food hazards and risks are required.

Since food hazards associated with heavy metal and potentially toxic metal contamination are still of increasing concern worldwide, not only for consumers but also for governments, industry and all sectors involved in the food chain, the purpose of this Special Issue of Foods is to recruit outstanding scientific researchers to provide high-quality manuscripts on hazard identification, hazard characterization, exposure assessments and risk characterization, along with risk management and risk communication challenges and strategies for these chemical hazards in food and feed.

Authors are invited to submit original and innovative research articles or critical review papers on these food contaminants.

We look forward to receiving your contributions.

Prof. Dr. Carmen Rubio
Prof. Dr. Jesus Olivero-Verbel
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Foods is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2900 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.