Impacts of Environmental Contaminants in Shellfish

Dear Colleagues,

About 110,000 micropollutants enter the aquatic medium every year due to human activities. They come from different sectors such as industry, agriculture, medicine, and most of them are released through the waste water system. Aquatic ecosystem must then face a chronic pollution with a complex mixture of compounds with different type of chemicals, exhibiting different mechanisms of actions. Reporting the distribution of the environmental compounds, such as the micropollutants, in the aquatic environment and understanding their interaction with the different abiotic and biotic surrounding matrices is critical. There is a lack of study investigating the cocktail effects of micropollutants on exposed organisms such as bivalves which are often on the front line of exposure in coastal ecosystem and have an important role in ecosystem functioning, sea food economical market, and aquaculture sector. Developing methods and innovative tools allowing the investigation of cocktail effects in realistic conditions is an urgent need for the scientific community.

Dr. Perrine Geraudie
Guest Editor

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