The Impact of Organic Contaminants on Environmental and Human Health
A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Chemoenvironment".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 March 2023) | Viewed by 4578
Special Issue Editors
Interests: environmental and bioanalytical chemistry; mass spectrometry; PFAS analysis; emerging contaminants; metabolites; biomarkers
Interests: analytical chemistry; aquaculture, fisheries and fish science; aquatic and marine chemistry; biochemistry; biodiversity; bioinorganic chemistry; biological oceanography; conservation biology; ecohydrology; ecotoxicology; environmental contamination and remediation; food science and technology; food, water and energy nexus; freshwater biology; omics technologies; toxicology
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Organic contaminants, especially persistent and resistant chemicals, are ubiquitous in several environmental compartments and humans. Knowledge around the presence, fate and sources of organic contaminants, including legacy and emerging ones, in the aquatic environment, such as in water, sediments, biota and humans, are needed to assist in ecological and human health risk assessments to evaluate their impact. In addition, as the amount of chemicals being produced and used in a multitude of applications steadily increases, the concern with emerging organic contaminants (EOC), which are normally not included in routine monitoring analysis and could potentially have toxic effects in the environment, is warranted—especially regarding the ones known as endocrine disruptor chemicals, shown to adversely affect aquatic organisms and human health at very low concentrations. The presence of these EOC in trace amounts in environmental and biological matrices has also brought challenges to the analytical chemistry community, which, with recent advances in mass spectrometry, will be able to detect several compounds simultaneously with more precision and accuracy.
The Special issue will cover the following topics:
- Occurrence, fate, sources and environmental health risks of emerging contaminants of concern in the aquatic environment (water, sediment, biota);
- Assessment of legacy and emerging organic pollutants in human, biological and environmental samples;
- Improvements in mass spectrometry-based analytical methods for the determination of organic contaminants in environmental and biological samples;
- Ecological and human health risk assessments.
Prof. Dr. Natalia Soares Quinete
Dr. Rachel Ann Hauser-Davis
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- emerging contaminants
- persistent organic pollutants, endocrine disruptors
- mass spectrometry
- aquatic ecosystem
- exposome
- human health risk assessment
- ecological risk assessment
