Environmental Fate and Risk Assessment of Emerging Pollutants
A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Science and Engineering".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 October 2023) | Viewed by 6481
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Interests: PPCP; emerging environmental endocrine disruptors; bisphenol compounds; screening of typical environmental endocrine disruptors in water environment
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Dear Colleagues,
With the rapid development of modern industry and agriculture, large quantities of emerging pollutants (EPs) are continually being discharged into the environment. EPs include many environmental contaminants such as pharmaceuticals, personal care products, detergents, polymers, etc., and currently few regulations are established for their environmental safety. Their occurrence is reported worldwide in different environmental media, such as water, soil and air. Environmental pollution by EPs is becoming a subject of global concern because these pollutants pose potential risks to environment and human health, and it is difficult to completely remove them from the environment, even using modern treatment technology. Therefore, EPs are becoming the focus of current research on environmental problems.
To prevent and control these emerging compounds well, we need to evaluate their occurrence, migration, transformation, and elimination in different environmental matrices. On the other hand, finding the source and transmission route of EPs is of great significance for environmental management in order to reduce the threat they pose to our urbanized society. Nevertheless, many emerging pollutants have been found; only few of them have been toxicologically evaluated, and some are very toxic to animal and human health. Hence, it is necessary to study the toxicity of more EPs to humans and organisms and associated molecular mechanisms. Additionally, the environmental risk due to the emerging contaminants is of great concern because most of them are considered to have potentially adverse impacts on animal life and human health. Environmental risk assessment is an important step before taking appropriate environmental management measures, which is mostly based on large volumes of toxicity data or robust epidemiologic surveys and exact exposure assessment.
Dr. Bingli Lei
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- emerging pollutants
- environmental behavior
- elimination
- emission source
- human exposure
- toxicology
- molecular mechanism
- environmental risk assessment
- environment management
- control measures
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