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From Soil to Plate: The Fate of Xenobiotics in the Food Chain with Ecological and Health Risk Implications

A special issue of Journal of Xenobiotics (ISSN 2039-4713).

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2023) | Viewed by 11441

Special Issue Editor

Prof. Dr. Agnieszka Gruszecka-Kosowska

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1. Department of Environmental Protection, Faculty of Geology, Geophysics and Environmental Protection, AGH University of Science and Technology, 30-059 Krakow, Poland
2. Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Pharmacy, Univeristy of Granada, 18011 Granada, Spain
3. Centre of Biomedical Research (INYTA-CIBM), Institute of Nutrition and Food Technology “José Mataix", 18071 Granada, Spain
Interests: health risk; environmental risk; risk management; risk communication; potentially harmful elements; contaminants of emerging concern; microbiological risk; biogeochemistry; bioremediation
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Xenobiotics constitute a varied range of chemical compounds that, according to the definition, are foreign to the organisms or the environment. Xenobiotics are mostly of anthropogenic origin and they have become ubiquitous in the environment. They may have various toxic and carcinogenic effects, both in ecosystems and living organisms, including humans. Special scientific concern is lately being given to the following groups of xenobiotics: potentially harmful elements (PHEs), polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), rare earth elements (REEs), fertilizers and plant protection products, contaminants of emerging concern (CECs) like pharmaceuticals and personal care products (PPCPs) or endocrine disruptor compounds (EDCs), as well as their transformation products. Xenobiotics are persistent in the environment, they can migrate through air, water, and soil; finally, they can bioaccumulate both in the original or transformed forms of compounds. All of these might cause negative ecological and health risk effects.

The ecological and health risk implications caused by xenobiotics become an important global issue in the widely understood food industry, as nourishment is necessary to all organisms for living. Our food supplies are currently being produced in a more and more polluted environment, and knowledge and awareness of potential risk implications have turned out to be crucial issues. 

Thus, the goal of the Special Issue is to gather more recent and substantial research on xenobiotics’ transfer from soil, air, and water to the food chain with related risk implications for the better understanding and prediction of ecological and health threats connected with consumed food. 

Dr. Agnieszka Gruszecka-Kosowska
Guest Editor

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Journal of Xenobiotics is an international peer-reviewed open access quarterly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 1600 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

Keywords

  • Xenobiotics in soil
  • Xenobiotics in irrigating water
  • Xenobiotics in fodder
  • Xenobiotics in edible plants
  • Xenobiotics in animals
  • Xenobiotics transfer in the food chain
  • Xenobiotics exposure in humans
  • Xenobiotics consumption
  • Xenobiotics and climate change
  • Health risk assessment of xenobiotics
  • Ecological risk assessment of xenobiotics

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Significance of Environmental Input Data in Risk Assessment Analyses
by Agnieszka Gruszecka-Kosowska
J. Xenobiot. 2020, 10(2), 36-38; https://doi.org/10.3390/jox10020005 - 21 Dec 2020
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The environment is becoming more and more polluted [...] Full article
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Photodegradation of Flucetosulfuron, a Sulfonylurea-Based Herbicide in the Aqueous Media Is Influenced by Ultraviolet Irradiation
by Arnab Goon, Arijita Bhattacharyya, Bappa Ghosh, Rajiv Rakshit, Anupam Das, Suborna Roy Choudury, Chiranjit Kundu, Pritam Ganguly and Akbar Hossain
J. Xenobiot. 2021, 11(4), 142-154; https://doi.org/10.3390/jox11040010 - 6 Nov 2021
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Photodegradation (photolysis) causes the breakdown of organic pesticides molecules by direct or indirect solar radiation energy. Flucetosulfuron herbicide often encounters water bodies. For this reason, it is important to know the behavior of the compound under these stressed conditions. In this context, photodegradation [...] Read more.
Photodegradation (photolysis) causes the breakdown of organic pesticides molecules by direct or indirect solar radiation energy. Flucetosulfuron herbicide often encounters water bodies. For this reason, it is important to know the behavior of the compound under these stressed conditions. In this context, photodegradation of flucetosulfuron, a sulfonylurea-based herbicide, has been assessed in aqueous media in the presence of photocatalyst TiO2 and photosensitizers (i.e., H2O2, humic acid, and KNO3) under the influence of ultraviolet (UV) irradiation. The influence of different water systems was also assessed during the photodegradation study. The photodegradation followed the first-order reaction kinetics in each case. The metabolites after photolysis were isolated in pure form by column chromatographic method and characterized using the different spectral data (i.e., XRD, IR, NMR, UV-VIS, and mass spectrometry). The structures of these metabolites were identified based on the spectral data and the plausible photodegradation pathways of flucetosulfuron were suggested. Based on the findings, photocatalyst TiO2 with the presence of ultraviolet irradiation was found effective for the photodegradation of toxic flucetosulfuron residues under aqueous conditions. Full article
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Impact of Cumulative Environmental and Dietary Xenobiotics on Human Microbiota: Risk Assessment for One Health
by Pilar Ortiz, Alfonso Torres-Sánchez, Ana López-Moreno, Klara Cerk, Ángel Ruiz-Moreno, Mercedes Monteoliva-Sánchez, Antonis Ampatzoglou, Margarita Aguilera and Agnieszka Gruszecka-Kosowska
J. Xenobiot. 2022, 12(1), 56-63; https://doi.org/10.3390/jox12010006 - 17 Mar 2022
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Chemical risk assessment in the context of the risk analysis framework was initially designed to evaluate the impact of hazardous substances or xenobiotics on human health. As the need of multiple stressors assessment was revealed to be more reliable regarding the occurrence and [...] Read more.
Chemical risk assessment in the context of the risk analysis framework was initially designed to evaluate the impact of hazardous substances or xenobiotics on human health. As the need of multiple stressors assessment was revealed to be more reliable regarding the occurrence and severity of the adverse effects in the exposed organisms, the cumulative risk assessment started to be the recommended approach. As toxicant mixtures and their “cocktail effects” are considered to be main hazards, the most important exposure for these xenobiotics would be of dietary and environmental origin. In fact, even a more holistic prism should currently be considered. In this sense, the definition of One Health refers to simultaneous actions for improving human, animal, and environmental health through transdisciplinary cooperation. Global policies necessitate going beyond the classical risk assessment for guaranteeing human health through actions and implementation of the One Health approach. In this context, a new perspective is proposed for the integration of microbiome biomarkers and next generation probiotics potentially impacting and modulating not only human health, but plant, animal health, and the environment. Full article
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