Ensuring Food Safety and Sustainability Under Climate Change and Globalization

Topic Information

Dear Colleagues,

Food safety is a critical global priority in the context of increasingly complex supply chains, intensified agricultural production, climate change, and evolving dietary patterns. These dynamics contribute to the emergence, persistence, and dissemination of chemical and biological hazards within food systems. Among the most pressing concerns are pesticide residues, mycotoxins, environmental contaminants, foodborne pathogens, and antimicrobial-resistant microorganisms, all of which may exert significant biological and toxicological effects and pose substantial risks to public health, food security, and international trade.

Ensuring safe and sustainable food systems requires advanced analytical methods capable of detecting contaminants at trace levels, identifying emerging hazards, and supporting effective monitoring across the agri-food chain. High-resolution analytical techniques, multi-residue methodologies, molecular and omics-based tools, biosensors, and rapid detection technologies are increasingly essential to strengthen surveillance systems and enable early risk identification and control. In parallel, robust dietary exposure assessment, toxicological evaluation, and quantitative risk assessment models are fundamental for informing science-based risk management and regulatory decision-making.

This Research Topic aims to advance scientific knowledge and develop innovative solutions to ensure food safety in a rapidly changing global context. We welcome contributions that address the detection, monitoring, mitigation, and risk assessment of food-related hazards along the agri-food chain, with particular emphasis on high-resolution analytical techniques, multi-residue methods, molecular and omics-based tools, rapid detection and point-of-need technologies, antimicrobial resistance surveillance, dietary exposure assessment, and science-based risk management strategies.

Dr. Daniela Araújo
Dr. Joana Castro
Dr. José Pinela
Dr. Ricardo Oliveira
Topic Editors

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Participating Journals

Journal Name	Impact Factor	CiteScore	Launched Year	First Decision (median)	APC
Biosensors biosensors	6.2	12.1	2011	17.3 Days	CHF 2200	Submit
Foods foods	6.0	10.3	2012	14.8 Days	CHF 2900	Submit
Methods and Protocols mps	2.5	3.4	2018	26.7 Days	CHF 1800	Submit
Molecules molecules	5.1	10.3	1996	15.6 Days	CHF 2700	Submit
Nutrients nutrients	5.8	10.2	2009	15.8 Days	CHF 2900	Submit
Sci sci	4.1	5.4	2019	28.2 Days	CHF 1400	Submit
Sustainability sustainability	4.1	8.9	2009	16.9 Days	CHF 2400	Submit
Toxins toxins	4.0	8.3	2009	18 Days	CHF 2700	Submit

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