Assessment of Pollutant Contamination within the One Health Approach

A special issue of Toxics (ISSN 2305-6304). This special issue belongs to the section "Exposome Analysis and Risk Assessment".

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Interests: analytical chemistry; water contamination; perfluorinated compounds (PFAS); mass spectrometry; environmental chemistry
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Dear Colleagues,

For decades, pollution problems have drawn the attention of the scientific and social community.

Recently, we have witnessed a centrality of environmental protection by considering the One Health aspect and, in this context, health prevention through environmental monitoring plays an important role.

In detail, it was highlighted how, due to their toxicity, the presence of emerging and classic pollutants in indoor and outdoor environments plays a central role in establishing human exposure levels to these toxic compounds.

This Special Issue, entitled “Assessment of Pollutant Contamination within the One Health Approach”, will showcase scientific studies regarding the monitoring of several pollutants in indoor and outdoor matrices in order to disseminate information concerning toxic effects by human exposure to these substances.

This Special Issue represents one of the first contributions dedicated to the One Health approach.

Dr. Salvatore Barreca
Dr. Dario Savoca
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Keywords

  • environmental pollutants
  • one health approach
  • emerging pollutants
  • risk assessment
  • pollutant toxicities

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Determination of Perfluorooctanoic Acid (PFOA) in the Indoor Dust Matter of the Sicily (Italy) Area: Analysis and Exposure Evaluations
by Salvatore Barreca, Michele Marco Mizio Mancuso, Daniel Sacristán, Andrea Pace, Dario Savoca and Santino Orecchio
Toxics 2024, 12(1), 28; https://doi.org/10.3390/toxics12010028 - 28 Dec 2023
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Perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) in environmental matrices is increasingly being studied due to its environmental persistence, global occurrence, bioaccumulation, and associated human health risks. Some indoor environments can significantly impact the health of occupants due to pollutants in indoor air and household dust. To [...] Read more.
Perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) in environmental matrices is increasingly being studied due to its environmental persistence, global occurrence, bioaccumulation, and associated human health risks. Some indoor environments can significantly impact the health of occupants due to pollutants in indoor air and household dust. To investigate the potential exposure of individuals to PFOA in specific confined environments, this study reports an analytical method and results concerning the determination of PFOA in household dust, used as a passive sampler. To the best of our knowledge, this paper represents one of the first studies concerning PFOA concentrations in indoor dust collected in the south of Italy, within the European region. A total of twenty-three dust samples were collected from two different areas of Sicily (Palermo and Milena), extracted, and analyzed by an UHPLC-QTOF-MS/MS system. Finally, PFOA exposure was estimated using a new index (Indoor PFOA Exposure Index, IPEX) that incorporates the PFOA levels in dust, exposure time, and the correlation between the PFOA in dust and blood. It was then compared across four different exposure groups, revealing that PFOA exposure for people working in chemistry laboratories was evaluated to be ten times higher than the exposure for homemakers. Full article
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