Health Risk Assessment of Emerging Pollutants—an Integration of Exposure Estimation and Mechanism-Based Toxicity Study
A special issue of Toxics (ISSN 2305-6304). This special issue belongs to the section "Exposome Analysis and Risk Assessment".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 June 2026 | Viewed by 56
Special Issue Editors
Interests: metabolic activation; persistent organic pollutants; mutagenicity; cytochrome P450 enzymes; DNA damage; gene mutations; chromosome damage
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Interests: endocrine disrupting chemicals; persistent organic pollutants; acetylcholinesterase; gut/respiratory toxicology; oxidative stress; inflamatory change
Interests: endocrine disrupting chemicals; bisphenols; triphenyl phosphate; obesity; dyslipidemia; lipid metabolism
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Emerging pollutants are newly occurring pollutants that show biological toxicity, environmental persistence, and bio-accumulation, typically including persistent organic pollutants, endocrine disruptors, antibiotics, and microplastics. While estimation of the extent of environmental and food pollution of emerging pollutants in various regions and geographic locations are continuously occurring, information about their daily exposure levels in human populations is becoming increasingly significant; meanwhile, investigation into the full spectrum of toxic effects of emerging pollutants is important to bridge the gap between exposure and toxicity, leading to health risk assessments and appropriate toxic substance management.
In regard to toxicity testing, there are multiple challenges faced by investigators, such as the difficulty extrapolating test results from animals to humans, high doses to low exposure levels, and single-compound-based experiments to combined-effects experiments. Therefore, the use of new experimental models that support combined exposure to interactively acting chemicals is encouraged. In the meantime, mechanistic studies that reveal the mode of action, establishment of adverse outcome pathways, application of AOP in rapid toxicity screening, and relevant epidemiological studies are especially, but not exclusively, welcome.
In this Special Issue, original research articles, literature reviews, and short communications are all welcome.
Prof. Dr. Yungang Liu
Dr. Haiming Xu
Dr. Ming Shi
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- persistent organic pollutants
- endocrine disruptors
- environmental antibiotics
- microplastics
- metabolically-modulated/activated toxicity
- neuro-behavioral toxicity
- endocrinal disruption
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