Environmental Fate and Exposure Assessment of Emerging Contaminants
A special issue of Toxics (ISSN 2305-6304). This special issue belongs to the section "Emerging Contaminants".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 October 2026 | Viewed by 115
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Interests: environmental health; toxicology; analytical chemistry; environmental risk assessment; health risk assessment; food safety; emerging contaminants
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Interests: ecotoxicology; environmental pollutants; chemometrics; environmental chemistry; toxicity reduction; human health determinants
Interests: one health approach; medical drugs; hazardous; organic pollutants; genotoxicity markers; oxidative stress; rare earth elements toxicity
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Interests: advanced treatment processes; environmental pollutants; environmental chemistry; toxicity reduction; human health determinants; environmental health
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
We are delighted to invite you to submit your research for this upcoming Special Issue, titled “Environmental Fate and Exposure Assessment of Emerging Contaminants" in Toxics. This Special Issue aims to advance the understanding of unregulated or newly recognized pollutants, such as pharmaceuticals, novel pesticides, personal care products (PPCPs), per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), microplastics, and nanomaterials, with a strong emphasis on their environmental persistence, bioaccumulation, and transformation pathways, with direct links to environmental health and human health risks such as endocrine disruption and chronic toxicity.
Focus and Scope
This Special Issue will examine the dynamics of ECs in water, soil, air, and biota, covering degradation kinetics, multimedia partitioning, predictive modeling, and climate-influenced scenarios. It prioritizes exposure assessments for humans and ecosystems via dietary, inhalation, and dermal routes, alongside health impact studies integrating toxicology, epidemiology, and risk analysis. Original research, reviews, and modeling advancing mitigation strategies for public health protection are encouraged.
Positioning in the literature
Building on established reviews of EC persistence and low-dose effects in wastewater and food chains, this Issue will address gaps in climate-exacerbated transformation products and vulnerable population exposures. It complements Toxics' scope on toxicants by providing integrated fate–exposure–health frameworks, extending prior work in environmental chemistry toward actionable public health insights.
Dr. Maciej Tankiewicz
Dr. Monika Cieszyńska-Semenowicz
Dr. Andrzej R. Reindl
Dr. Agnieszka Fiszka Borzyszkowska
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 250 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for assessment.
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. Toxics is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly 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 2600 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.
Keywords
- emerging contaminants
- environmental fate
- exposure assessment
- analytical methodologies
- ecotoxicology
- bioaccumulation
- human health risks
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