Sustainable Emerging Contaminants Management: Linking of Pollution and Health Risks

Dear Colleagues,

In the last few decades, with more emerging chemicals being used and showing up in the environment, the existence of emerging contaminants has become a worldwide issue. An accurate estimation of internal and external human exposure to emerging contaminants becomes essential for their forward-looking and sustainable chemical management.  Based on contaminant residuals monitored in environmental media, including air, soil, water and dust, human health risks in different scenarios could be assessed while evaluating their toxicity. Despite the evident advances in monitoring emerging contaminants, the comprehensive investigation in different environmental media and the risk assessment via multiple approaches (e.g., ingestion, inhalation and dermal contact) still remain insufficient. Researchers throughout the world studying emerging-pollutants monitoring and health risk assessment are invited to contribute research to this Special Issue. Review articles or opinions on assessment methodologies are also welcome. This Special Issue focuses on, but is not limited to, the following research areas:

• Development of detection methods for emerging contaminants in air, soil, dust and water;
• Monitoring of emerging contaminants in representative environmental media or on a large scale;
• Health risk assessments of emerging contaminants via multiple approaches;
• Fate of emerging contaminants in natural environments.

Dr. Ying Zhou
Dr. Junyu Guo
Guest Editors

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