Assessment of Contaminants of Emerging Concern in the Environment: Occurrence, Detection, Removal and Toxicity
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Sciences".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 December 2024 | Viewed by 782
Special Issue Editors
Interests: high-resolution mass spectrometry; contaminants of emerging concern; toxicity assessment
Interests: Inflammation; chronic disorders; anti-inflammatory; pharmaceuticals; cosmetics; natural bioactives; bioassays; toxicity; antitoxicity; valorization of agri-food by-products; emerging contaminants; quality of urban and semi-urban rivers’ and/or lakes’ and/or surface and/or sea waters; freshwater and marine organisms; fish; marine fungi; microalgae; macroalgae; seaweeds; plants; Lemnea
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Dear Colleagues,
The term “contaminants of emerging concern” definitely incorporates categories of a sheer number of compounds, such as the overwhelming group of pharmaceutical and personal care products, drugs of abuse, perfluorinated compounds, organophosphate flame retardants, etc., all of which are consumed exponentially throughout the years and many of them have been monitored as a complex multiphase mixture in aquatic environments worldwide. The fact that many contaminants are not removed completely in wastewater treatment plants and are introduced in receiving water is a remaining global challenge. After their release to the environment, their concentrations do not remain unaffected; thus, the effluent wastewater is considered their major contributor in aquatic compartments which can engender possible detrimental effects to non-target organisms.
This Special Issue aims to promote research in six major areas based on the above. Emphasis will be given to research with the most up-to dated sample pretreatment techniques. Special attention will be given to studies with state-of-the-art validated multi-residue methods. The third objective concerns the suspect and non-target screening through high-resolution mass spectrometry. Determining the target compounds, their transformation products, and their removal efficiency will further enhance the general picture. Finally, studies with toxicity assessment via in silico, in vitro, and in vivo bioassays are also welcome.
All contributions to this Special Issue will improve our knowledge in these fields.
Dr. Anna Ofrydopoulou
Dr. Alexandros Tsoupras
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- contaminants of emerging concern
- high-resolution mass spectrometry
- toxicity assessment
- removal
- non-target screening
- occurrence
- sample pretreatment
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