Health Risk Assessment for Food Contaminants: Exposure and Human Toxicology
A special issue of Toxics (ISSN 2305-6304). This special issue belongs to the section "Exposome Analysis and Risk Assessment".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 28 November 2025 | Viewed by 8
Special Issue Editors
Interests: toxicology; health risk assessment; new approach methodologies; mass spectrometry analysis
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: pesticide exposure assessment; biomonitoring; toxicokinetics; regulation toxicology
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
We invite researchers to contribute to a Special Issue of Toxics that addresses critical advances in the health risk assessment of food contaminants. With the increasing global awareness of chemical exposures through diet, there is a growing need to refine our understanding of foodborne toxicants, their human health impacts, and effective risk mitigation strategies.
This Issue welcomes original research and reviews focusing on exposure assessment, toxicological evaluation, and regulatory science related to food contaminants. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: occurrence and biomonitoring of pesticide residues, heavy metals, plasticizers, and natural toxins; cumulative and aggregate exposure modeling; application of high-throughput and computational toxicology; and integration of New Approach Methodologies (NAMs) in food safety assessments.
Submissions that explore vulnerable population risks, mechanistic insights via omics technologies, or policy-relevant frameworks for dietary risk regulation are particularly encouraged. By uniting interdisciplinary approaches, this Special Issue aims to support science-based decision-making for public health protection.
Dr. Yu-Syuan Luo
Dr. Nan-Hung Hsieh
Guest Editors
Manuscript Submission Information
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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.
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Keywords
- food contaminants
- health risk assessment
- exposure modeling
- toxicology
- new approach methodologies (NAMs)
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