Transformation and Exposure Risk of Emerging Contaminants
This special issue belongs to the section "Emerging Contaminants".
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Emerging contaminants (ECs) are receiving considerable attention due to their widespread occurrence and toxicological properties. Given their extensive use, ECs continuously undergo biological and chemical degradation in the environment, resulting in the formation of various transformation products (TPs). Several TPs could differ in toxicological effects from the parent ECs. In particular, the formation of higher persistent and/or toxic TPs could result in more adverse impacts on ecosystem and human health. Thus, the transformation and exposure risk of ECs could cause significant environmental, economic, and health effects, making them a problem at the regional, national, and even global scale. This Special Issue aims to be multidisciplinary in its approach covering the latest research on ECs-related transformation and exposure risks.
Research areas may include (but are not limited to) the following:
- Transformation of ECs in various environmental media (e.g., water, soil, atmosphere, particulate matter).
- Metabolic transformation ECs in human bodies.
- Exposure risks of ECs and their transformation products.
- Monitoring and analysis of transformation/metabolic products.
- Biomonitoring of human exposure to ECs.
- Risk management and intervention of ECs.
Prof. Dr. Yanpeng Gao
Prof. Dr. Lei Huang
Prof. Dr. Jing Zheng
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- transformation mechanism
- environmetnal fate
- exposure risk
- emerging contaminants
- health risk assessment
- environmental ecology
- risk management and intervention
- target & non-target screening analysis
- biomonitoring of human exposure
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Published Papers
Toxics - ISSN 2305-6304