Molecular Toxicity of Foodstuff Contaminants and Mitigation Strategies

Dear Colleagues,

Foodstuff safety is related to human and animal health. Contaminants including antibiotics, heavy metals, pesticides, mycotoxins, pathogens, microplastics, and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons are the most important risk factors affecting food and feed safety. They can be naturally contaminated with grain seed or introduced into food and feed products during production, handling, or storage. These contaminants cause immunotoxicity, reproductive toxicity, hepatotoxicity, cytotoxicity, and seriously threaten human and animal health.

Supervised by Dr. Lihong Zhao and Dr. Matthew Koci, and assisted by our Topical Advisory Panel Member Dr. Yongpeng Guo from Henan Agricultural University, the Special Issue “Molecular Toxicity of Foodstuff Contaminants and Mitigation Strategies”, aims to collect papers about the latest advances in the molecular toxicity mechanisms of urgent food contaminants and bring about promising mitigation strategies to reduce their threat to human and animal health.

Topics of interest include but are not limited to the following:

• The use of multi-omics methods to provide deep insights into the molecular toxicity mechanisms and the combined toxic effects of common contaminants in food and feed.
• Novel nutritional strategies for regulating the resistance and metabolism ability of humans and animals to contaminants in food and feed.
• Promising physical, chemical, and microbial methods to detoxify contaminants in food and feed, with a specific focus on the characterization and application of microbial enzymes in food and feed.

Dr. Lihong Zhao
Dr. Matthew Koci
Guest Editors

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• antibiotics
• heavy metals
• pesticides
• mycotoxins
• foodborne pathogens
• polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons
• microplastics
• toxicity
• biodegradation
• detoxification