Environmental and Human Health Risk Assessment of POPs

Dear Colleagues,

Persistent organic pollutants (POPs) are synthetic, environmentally highly persistent chemicals that adversely affect human health and the environment worldwide. Due to their unique characteristics, their effects, both on human and environment, are produced adjacent to and also distant from their origin of emission. These chemicals impose serious adverse effects both on our ecosystem and human health. Hence, public, scientific, and regulatory concerns about the toxicity by POPs have been amplified.

Over the last few years, there has been an increased interest in the toxicology and ecotoxicology of POPs, more specifically, in adverse ecotoxicological and human health risks associated with background exposure to these chemicals.

For this Special Issue on “Environmental and Human Health Risk Assessment of POPs” in Toxics, we are interested in broad-scope original research presenting experomental data on the determination of POPs in surface water, food, etc., short communication, and review articles assessing the risk for various populations exposed to POPs, as well as proposing various measures for risk mitigation, such as convention and regulation, control, and removal measures of POPs.

Prof. Dr. Kirill Golokhvast
Dr. Aleksandra Buha Djordjevic
Guest Editors

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