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Heavy Metals and Emerging Contaminants in Foods and Food Products Associated with Neurotoxicity
Summary
This review examines how heavy metals and emerging contaminants in food, including microplastics, can cause damage to the nervous system. Researchers found that these substances can cross into the brain and contribute to oxidative stress, inflammation, and nerve cell damage. The study highlights the importance of monitoring food contamination to protect neurological health.
A serious health issue that affects people all over the world is heavy metal and emerging pollutant exposure. Humans may directly get in contact with these heavy metals and pollutants by consuming foods and food-related products. Because of their persistent and potentially irreversible impacts, they are of particular concern. Nephrotoxicity, hepatotoxicity, and neurotoxicity are just a few of the harmful impacts they have on the body's systems. The ability to cause neurotoxicity is a characteristic shared by heavy metals, pollutants, and endocrine disruptors (EDs). Neurotoxic effects that can result from exposure to them in both humans and marine invertebrate animals include altered neurotransmitter levels, oxidative stress, and neuroinflammation. This write-up aimed to discuss about the main food contaminants, which includes heavy metals, EDs, mycotoxin, acrylamide, and micro- and nanoplastics with emphasis on their neurotoxic impacts on humans and animals. It also offers precautions against their widespread and neurotoxic effects.
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