Environmental Pollution and Food Safety
A special issue of Toxics (ISSN 2305-6304). This special issue belongs to the section "Ecotoxicology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 28 June 2024 | Viewed by 1448
Special Issue Editors
Interests: metals and foods; food quality and environment; As and Hg pollution; climate changes and food safety; biomarkers; carotenoids and photosynthetic pigments; environmental biochemistry; proteomic; phytoremediation
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: organic chemistry; phytoextraction; metal pollution; food plants; food quality and environment; doses of active ingredients in complex matrices
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Environmental pollution and climate change can modify food quality; generally, it has a negative impact, and can have a risk to human health. Metals such as arsenic, cadmium, lead, nickel, and copper can be present at various levels in the environment (soil, water, and atmosphere), and the source can be natural or anthropogenic. People can be exposed to contaminants from the environment or by ingestion of contaminated foods or water, and their accumulation in the body can lead to harmful effects over time. The phytoextraction of contaminants is a useful technic to reduce metal contamination in polluted soil or waters, but a better understanding of the process, and the plant adaptation to climate change, can improve the knowledge of these practices. In addition, also food plants can apply phytoextraction; it’s a defense route for plants to minimize the toxic effects of the contaminants, and usually, they are accumulated in the roots, leaves, fruits, and seeds. Soil, water, and food control of crops are necessary to maintain high food quality and high food safety.
For this Special Issue, in the Ecotoxicology Section, we invite high-quality original research papers, short communications, and reviews on Ecotoxicology and Food Toxicology. Areas of interest may include (but are not limited to) food safety; metals, and emergent contaminants phytoextraction; crops metal accumulation; innovative methods monitoring environmental pollution and food safety; climate change and food quality; metals contaminants, and environmental distribution.
Dr. Nicoletta Guerrieri
Dr. Gigliola Borgonovo
Guest Editors
Manuscript Submission Information
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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. Toxics is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.
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Keywords
- metals and foods
- food quality and environment
- food safety
- climate changes
- phytoextraction
- water pollution
- agricultural pollution
- foods and emerging contaminants
