Assessment of Dietary Exposure to Hazardous Chemicals and Health Risks
A special issue of Toxics (ISSN 2305-6304). This special issue belongs to the section "Agrochemicals and Food Toxicology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 August 2026 | Viewed by 2037
Special Issue Editors
Interests: new approach methodologies; food safety; food contact material; exposure assessment; dietary exposure; cumulative risk assessment; risk assessment; threshold of toxicological concern
Interests: liver toxicity; endocrine disruption; mixtures; NAM; NGRA; pesticides; risk assessment
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Diet serves as a primary route of human exposure to various hazardous chemicals, including environmental contaminants, natural toxins, food additives, and processing by-products. Accurately assessing this dietary exposure and its associated health risks is, therefore, fundamental to ensuring food safety and safeguarding public health. This Special Issue will focus on advancing the methodologies for dietary exposure assessment and deepening our understanding of the potential health implications arising from the cumulative and combined intake of hazardous chemicals through food and beverages.
We invite the submission of high-quality original research articles and comprehensive reviews. Studies that bridge food chemistry, exposure science, toxicology, and epidemiology are particularly welcomed. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Detection and quantification of hazardous chemicals (e.g., pesticides, heavy metals, mycotoxins, endocrine disruptors, microplastics) in diverse food matrices.
- Refinement of dietary exposure assessment methodologies, including deterministic and probabilistic models.
- Investigation of dietary exposure to chemical mixtures, especially for vulnerable sub-populations (e.g., children, pregnant women).
- Assessment of the health outcomes resulting from population exposure to hazardous chemicals through their diet.
This Special Issue collection aims to compile cutting-edge toxicological research that will deepen our understanding of dietary exposure-effect relationships, ultimately supporting more accurate hazard characterization and science-based health risk assessments.
Dr. Haixia Sui
Dr. Philip Marx-Stoelting
Dr. Denise Bloch
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- dietary exposure assessment
- food chemical
- food safety
- risk assessment
- exposure science
- toxicological research
- new approach methodologies
- cumulative risk assessment
- threshold of toxicological concern
- read across
- chemical mixtures
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