Human Biomonitoring Studies: Environmental Pollution and Possible Risks to Human Health
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 November 2025 | Viewed by 443
Special Issue Editors
Interests: human biomonitoring studies; air pollution; emerging pollutants; environmental pollution; health effects; analytical methods; reproduction effects
Interests: human biomonitoring; environmental contaminants; environment and human health; human exposure assessment
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Interests: human biomonitoring studies; air pollution; emerging pollutants; environmental pollution; health effects; analytical methods; reproduction effects
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Chemicals are now an integral part of everyday life. The absence of prevention policies for many years has led to environmental pollution, including in water, in the air, in soil, and, considering that some substances can enter the food chain, in food. Added to this is professional exposure among workers. Exposure assessment is an important part of the process of estimating health risks and involves measuring or estimating the extent, frequency, and duration of exposure to a substance in the general population or in a specific group of individuals. Human biomonitoring measures the concentration of the contaminant (or its metabolites) in the human body, taking into account variables that would be difficult to consider, such as different exposure routes being active at the same time and individual susceptibilities. It allows us to measure the internal dose and the concentration of substances and/or their degradation products or metabolites (indicated as “exposure biomarkers”) directly in biological tissues (for example, urine, blood, breast milk, and hair), integrating all possible routes and sources of exposure. It therefore provides the sum of all possible exposures without providing a specific indication of the most relevant sources.
We are pleased to invite you to contribute to this Special Issue. We welcome original research articles and reviews. Research areas may include (but are not limited to) the following: human biomonitoring studies involving adults, children, women of reproductive age, or other susceptible population groups, exposure assessment, the derivation of determinants of exposure, spatial and temporal trends, hotspot investigations, and perspectives on health risks.
Dr. Valentina Marra
Dr. Anna Maria Ingelido
Guest Editors
Dr. Silvia Valentini
Guest Editor Assistant
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Keywords
- air pollution human biomonitoring
- biological matrices (serum, urine, milk)
- exposure assessment
- exposure biomarkers
- reproductive toxicity
- adults
- children
- reproductive age
- emerging compounds
- persistent organic compounds
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