Traditional and Emerging Pollutants: Human Exposure Profiles and Health Effects
A special issue of Toxics (ISSN 2305-6304). This special issue belongs to the section "Human Toxicology and Epidemiology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 19 July 2024 | Viewed by 668
Special Issue Editor
Interests: environmental exposure and fetal development; environmental exposure and reproductive health
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Studies have shown that the number of high-volume toxic and hazardous chemicals, which are persistent, bioaccumulative, carcinogenic, mutagenic, and have reproductive toxicity, has now reached more than 600. These chemicals can enter the environment at all stages of production, processing, use, and consumption, posing potential environmental and health risks.
Toxic and hazardous chemicals are the main sources of emerging contaminants (ECs), and there are currently four main categories of ECs that we are concerned about: persistent organic pollutants (POPs), endocrine disruptors, antibiotics, and microplastics. They are considered to be hot research topics in the future. Humans can be exposed to them either due to their occupations or through dietary and environmental exposure (water, soil, and air), and it is becoming increasingly difficult to avoid exposure to traditional and emerging pollutants. However, the paucity of studies on ECs and the inconsistency of their findings remain controversial. The aim of this Special Issue is to identify reliable evidence showing the effects of compound exposure to traditional and emerging pollutants on the health of adult male and female, as well as on fetus growth and development.
Therefore, in this Special Issue, “Traditional and Emerging Pollutants: Human Exposure Profiles and Health Effects”, we accept excellent research that addresses one or more of the following topics, among others:
- Emerging pollutants;
- Human exposure profiles;
- Mixed exposure;
- Health damage.
Prof. Dr. Pan Yang
Guest Editor
Manuscript Submission Information
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Keywords
- exposure assessment
- emerging pollutants
- mixed exposure
- health effect and damage
- epigenomics
