Health Risk Assessment of Emerging Contaminants
A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Toxicology and Public Health".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 November 2023) | Viewed by 2385
Special Issue Editor
Interests: biomarkers; ecotoxicology; contaminants of emerging concern; wastewater; oxidative stress; genotoxicity
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Recent progress in analytical chemistry has made it possible to detect a growing number of emerging contaminants (ECs) in surface water, and several studies have shown their ubiquity in rivers and lakes. ECs include a wide variety of chemicals, such as microplastics, surfactants, plasticizers, nanomaterials, antibiotic-resistance genes, flame retardants, trace heavy metals, personal care products, pesticides, and endocrine-disrupting compounds. However, most ECs are not included in the list of priority pollutants, are not included in routine government monitoring programs, and their fate, behavior, and effects are often not well understood. These substances enter the aqueous environment directly following human and veterinary excretion and municipal wastewater effluents. ECs are biologically active at low concentrations and have the potential to accumulate in humans and other organisms. There are limited reports on the health risk assessment of emerging contaminants. This Special Issue of the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (IJERPH) focuses on the current state of knowledge on the health risk assessment of emerging contaminants, with links between occurrence and effects on humans and other organisms. New research papers, reviews, and case reports are welcome for submission to this Special Issue. Papers dealing with new approaches to health risk assessment and the management of emerging contaminants are also welcome.
Dr. Enrico Mendes Saggioro
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- pharmaceutical compounds
- personal care products
- endocrine disrupting compounds
- microplastics
- nanoparticles
- antibiotic resistance genes
- earth rare elements
- pesticides
- illicit drugs
- perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances
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