Microplastics and Medium/High-Processed Food: The Impact of Food Processing on Microplastic Contamination and Effects on Human Health
A special issue of Foods (ISSN 2304-8158). This special issue belongs to the section "Food Quality and Safety".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 28 February 2025 | Viewed by 269
Special Issue Editors
2. Institute of Atmospheric Pollution Research, Division of Rome, c/o Ministry of Environment and Energy Security, 00147 Rome, Italy
Interests: biomass; renewable energy; biofuels; carbon neutrality; energy crops; waste-to-energy; biochemical processes; thermochemical processes; anaerobic digestion; biogas; biomethane; liquefaction; manure; digestate; circular economy; bioenergy
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Interests: emerging pollutants; air pollutants; risk assessment; environmental monitoring; innovative analytical methods
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue proposal would like to cover a significant gap still present in the scientific literature. Medium and high processed foods could be particularly affected by microplastic contamination as not only the plastic packaging, but also the food process itself could be an important source of microplastics for foods. Further, due to the very high frequency of processed food consumption by humans, it is very relevant to conduct an in-depth investigation of the pathways through which microplastics could affect human health. Such a topic is, in fact, still scarcely investigated due to the complexity of the mechanisms of digestion. Furthermore, how microplastics could be adsorbed by human cell lines after being ingested with foods is not clear yet. Therefore, this Special Issue would like to cover two different topics which are completely interconnected, as the occurrence of microplastics in foodstuff (particularly medium and high processed ones) is of interest because of their likely effect on humans.
Prof. Dr. Pasquale Avino
Dr. Cristina Di Fiore
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- microplastic contamination
- medium/high-processed food
- effects of microplastics in food on human health
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