Environmental Exposure, Risk Assessment and Public Health

Dear Colleagues,

Each day, humans are exposed to toxic chemicals through multiple pathways, e.g., the inhalation of dust, consumption of contaminated drinking water, direct ingestion of soil and consumption of food plants grown in contaminated soil. Understanding the long-term health effects of environmental exposure, their interactions with genetic and epigenetic variants and effective interventions for reducing involuntary exposure to environmental chemicals is fundamental to protecting individual and public health.

This Special Issue focuses on the current state of knowledge regarding environmental exposure, risk assessment and its health effects. We welcome manuscripts from different disciplines covering a range of topics, including the source identification of human exposure, contaminant bioavailability and bioaccessibility in different environmental matrices, biological monitoring in in vivo and in vitro studies, risk assessment and long-term health effects of human exposure and intervention strategies to reduce human exposure.

In this Special Issue, original research articles and reviews are welcome.

We look forward to receiving your contributions.

Dr. Di Zhao
Guest Editor

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