Chemical Analysis in Seawater and Aquatic Organism Pollution

Dear Colleagues,

The consumption of aquatic products worldwide has increased speedily in recent years, particularly with the awareness of its nutritional and therapeutic benefits. In addition to being important sources of protein, these species are enriched with essential minerals, vitamins, and unsaturated fatty acids. However, marine organisms normally accumulate various pollutants from the environment that they inhibit, which makes them a good indicator of aquatic contamination. Pollution with anthropogenic contaminants, such as environmental ones (e.g., heavy metals, persistent organic pollutants, natural toxins,  microplastics, pharmaceutical products and nanomaterials), agrichemical treatments (e.g., pesticides), and processing contaminants (as a result of various cooking, processing, or packaging techniques), has been of great concern recently since they can subsequently transfer to man through the food web. Marine species represent good indicators of the status of the surrounding coastal water as well.

This Special Issue, titled “Chemical Analysis in Seawater and Aquatic Organism Pollution”, seeks high-quality works with novel scientific research using various methods, analytical techniques, and approaches for identifying, characterizing, and measuring toxic chemical contaminant levels in aqueous samples (marine, aquaculture species, seawater, etc.). Taking into account the fact that no risk assessment would be possible without analytical data regarding food contaminants, research papers based on the assessment of human health risk (applying varies indices) are highly welcomed. Reviews will be also considered for publication.

Topics to be covered include (but are not limited to) the following:

• Monitoring and predicting the toxicological еffects of chemicals in the aquatic environment;
• Environmental risk assessment of effects in aquatic toxicology;
• Marine toxicology.

Dr. Veselina Panayotova
Dr. Katya Peycheva
Dr. Albena Merdzhanova
Guest Editors

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• toxic and essential elements
• food safety
• marine organisms
• ecotoxicological risk
• environmental pollutants
• health risk