Biomonitoring of Persistent Organic Pollutants
A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Toxicology and Public Health".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 March 2022) | Viewed by 3477
Special Issue Editors
Interests: environmental chemistry; human biomonitoring; human health and environment; environmental contaminants in food and feed; Persistent Organic Pollutants in cord serum, human milk and foetus/baby, quality assurance
Interests: human biomonitoring; environmental contaminants; environment and human health; human exposure assessment
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Persistent organic pollutants (POPs) are organic substances that due to their physical and chemical properties are toxic for humans and the environment. Because of their long-range environmental transportation, POPs are transferred even to regions where they have never been used or produced.
Because of their toxicological properties, these substances pose a threat to the environment and to human health all over the globe. Several negative effects on the environment and human health are well-known as skin toxicity, immunotoxicity, neurotoxicity, negative effects on reproduction, teratogenicity, endocrine disruption, diabetes and even cancer. The UNEP Stockholm Convention on POPs adopted in 2001 has as objective the elimination or restriction of their production.
In order to provide a more accurate assessment of POP impact on the environment and human health, this Special Issue offers an opportunity to publish high-quality papers that focus on the definition, characterization and measurement of the combined effect of human exposure to mixtures of POPs and of spatial, temporal, and intra-individual variations in exposure.
We will accept manuscripts from different topics including human exposure, risk and health impact assessment, risk communication, risk management, POPs and climate change, emerging POPs, human health protection, POP monitoring in indoor and outdoor environments, environmental risk assessment from exposure to these chemicals in air, soil, water, food and waste.
This Special Issue aims to describe state-of-the-art findings and to develop intervention strategies in chronic disease prevention and population health.
Dr. Annalisa Abballe
Dr. Anna Maria Ingelido
Dr. Pierre Dumas
Guest Editors
Manuscript Submission Information
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Keywords
- human exposure
- risk assessment
- risk communication
- co exposure and mixtures of POPs
- health damages
- POPs and climate change
- emerging POPs
- contaminated sites
- contamination trends and effectiveness of reduction measures
