Dear Colleagues,

Emerging contaminants are synthetic or naturally occurring chemicals that are not commonly monitored in the environment but could potentially bring about adverse effects on human and animal health. Emerging contaminants have attracted great public concern and therefore, the comprehensive and in-depth understanding of emerging contaminants is the foundation for environmental guidelines and treatment practices to ensure adequate protection. There is a great need to unveil the detrimental health effects of emerging contaminants, elucidate the underlying toxicological mechanisms, conduct the toxicological evaluation, and then explore the effective intervention measures.

The topical collection will include but not limiting to:

l The occurrence, fate, risks, and control of emerging contaminants;

l The deleterious health effects of emerging contaminants on humans and animals, such as endocrine toxicology, developmental and reproductive toxicology, hepatotoxicity, thyrotoxicity, genotoxicity, immunotoxicity, and etc.;

l Toxicogenomics, toxicological proteomics, toxicological metabonomics, and etc. of emerging contaminants;

l Toxicological mechanisms of emerging contaminants;

l Toxicological evaluation of emerging contaminants; 

l Intervention measures of emerging contaminants.