Human Biomonitoring, Exposure Assessment and Quantitative Analysis of PFASs
A special issue of Toxics (ISSN 2305-6304). This special issue belongs to the section "Exposome Analysis and Risk Assessment".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 12 March 2026 | Viewed by 12
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Interests: environmental chemistry; human biomonitoring; human health and environment; environmental contaminants in food and feed; persistent organic pollutants in cord serum; human milk and foetus/baby; quality assurance
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs) are a large class of thousands of synthetic organofluorine chemical compounds used in various industrial applications. Due to their physical and chemical properties, these substances are toxic to humans and the environment. Because of their toxicological characteristics, these substances pose a threat to the environment and to human health all over the globe. Several negative effects on human health are well-known, including neurotoxicity, hepatotoxicity, carcinogenicity, immunotoxicity, and cardiovascular diseases. Perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS) and perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) are two of the most studied long-chain PFASs. PFOS, its salts, and perfluorooctane sulfonyl fluoride (PFOS-F) were listed in 2009 under Annex B to the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs). In 2019 and then in 2022, PFOA and PFHxS, together with their salts and related compounds, were also included in Annex A. In November 2023, the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) classified PFOA as “carcinogenic to humans (Group 1)” and PFOS as “possibly carcinogenic to humans (Group 2B)”.
In order to provide a more accurate assessment of PFASs' impact on human health, this Special Issue offers an opportunity to publish high-quality papers that focus on the characterization and assessment of human exposure through increasingly effective analytical techniques.
We will accept manuscripts from different topics, including human exposure, risk and health impact assessment, risk communication, risk management, PFASs and climate change, novel PFASs, and human health protection. This Special Issue aims to describe the state of the art and to develop intervention strategies for chronic disease prevention and population health.
Dr. Annalisa Abballe
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- PFASs
- human exposure
- risk communication
- risk management
- risk assessment
- health impact assessment
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