Biomonitoring of Toxic Elements and Emerging Pollutants
A special issue of Toxics (ISSN 2305-6304). This special issue belongs to the section "Emerging Contaminants".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 October 2025 | Viewed by 147
Special Issue Editors
Interests: biomonitoring; biomagnification; environmental pollutants; emerging pollutants; heavy metals; pesticides; risk assessment; persistent organic pollutants (POPs); ecotoxicology
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: agricultural chemistry; chromatography; environmental chemistry; pesticides; wastewater
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Environmental toxicology is one of the most interdisciplinary sciences in existence. Veterinarians, physicians, biologists, chemists and other scientists work in this promising and current scientific discipline within their scientific field. Biomonitoring is defined as the estimation of exposure to chemical substances present in the environment by direct measurement of these substances or their derivatives in biological samples. Biological monitoring studies provide a very useful tool in public health to determine the exposure to environmental contaminants, allowing us to identify and eliminate possible sources of exposure, study relationships between contaminants and health effects, identify population groups vulnerable to certain contaminants and set priorities in research on the environment and health. Biomonitoring is also used in health policies, as a basis for the development of laws aimed at reducing contamination by chemical products. We would like to invite you to submit a manuscript related to your work on biomonitoring of organic or inorganic contaminants in living beings. The aim is to cover anthropogenic and natural pollution, using both experimental and theoretical approaches, as well as new developments in methodology. Of interest are monitoring and analysis of pollutant levels, sources and transport of toxic substances, statistical analysis and prediction of future trends, effects of pollution on biological and biochemical processes, as well as strategies to prevent and eliminate pollution and establish tolerable levels. Manuscripts will be published in this Special Issue of the journal Toxics (impact factor 3.9). Toxics is a highly respected MDPI publication with increasing visibility and exposure for scientists from around the world.
Prof. Dr. Miguel Motas Guzmán
Dr. Pedro Andreo-Martínez
Dr. Juan Jose Ramos
Guest Editors
Manuscript Submission Information
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Keywords
- environmental health risks
- bioaccumulation
- biomonitoring
- ecotoxicity
- emerging contaminants
- one health
- biological effect monitoring
- laboratory tests and validation
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