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ClearInvisible Threats on the Plate
This paper reviews three categories of emerging food contaminants—microplastics, PFAS, and pharmaceutical residues—examining their sources, detection methods, and health risks, and highlighting the inadequacy of current food safety regulations in addressing these invisible threats.
Chemical safety of food products: problems and solutions (literature review)
This literature review examines chemical safety challenges in food production and processing, covering contamination by pesticides, heavy metals, mycotoxins, and emerging pollutants including microplastics, and discussing regulatory and technological solutions.
Microplastics as Emerging Food Contaminants: A Challenge for Food Safety
This review examines microplastics as an emerging contaminant in the food supply, covering how they enter the food chain, their characteristics, and the challenges of assessing their health risks. Researchers found that while microplastics have been detected in a wide range of food products, current scientific data is insufficient to complete a thorough risk assessment of dietary exposure. The study calls for standardized detection methods and more research to establish safe exposure thresholds for microplastics in food.
Emerging Pollutants in the Environment
This introductory chapter defines emerging pollutants as unregulated chemicals of ecological and human health concern, categorizing microplastics, endocrine disruptors, pharmaceuticals, and disinfection byproducts as priority contaminants requiring new monitoring and regulatory frameworks.
Emerging and Persistent Food Contaminants: A Decade Review of Their Health Risks and Mitigation Strategies
This decade-long narrative review synthesized evidence on emerging and persistent food contaminants including heavy metals, pesticides, mycotoxins, microplastics, pharmaceuticals, and endocrine-disrupting chemicals. Microplastics emerged as a growing concern across the food chain, with evidence accumulating for systemic health effects via ingestion of contaminated food and water.
Distribution, Prevention, and Control of Emerging Food Contamination
This review examined the distribution, prevention, and control of emerging food contaminants including microplastics, nanoplastics, and chemical additives, summarizing regulatory frameworks and analytical detection methods across food categories.
Emerging Threat of Food Contamination by Microplastics and its Influence on Safety and Human Perspective
Researchers reviewed how widespread plastic use across industry has made microplastic contamination of food a serious public health concern, with particles entering the food supply through environmental pathways including runoff, wastewater, and air. Addressing this threat requires tighter regulations, better food supply monitoring, and public education on exposure risks.
Environmental geochemistry of emerging contaminants: impacts on agroecosystem function, food security, and human health
This review examines how emerging contaminants including microplastics, PFAS, pharmaceuticals, and engineered nanomaterials threaten agricultural ecosystems and food safety. Researchers found that these pollutants persist in soil, accumulate in crops, and disrupt beneficial soil organisms, creating complex risks that are difficult to manage with current approaches. The study emphasizes the urgent need for integrated monitoring and remediation strategies to protect both food production and human health.
Current Trends and Future Research in Emerging Food Contaminants
This review analyzes current trends and emerging challenges in food contaminant research, examining micropollutants, endocrine disruptors, pesticides, medicines, hormones, and synthetic colors that pose risks even at low concentrations and highlighting the need for improved detection and remediation strategies.
Microplastics, PFAS, and Pharmaceutical Residues as Emerging Contaminants in the Global Food Chain
This chapter reviews how microplastics, PFAS, and pharmaceutical residues enter the global food chain through industrial discharge, agricultural practices, and environmental runoff, emphasising their persistence and bioaccumulation. It evaluates the human health implications and regulatory challenges of managing these co-occurring emerging contaminants.
Microplastics supply contaminants in food chain: non-negligible threat to health safety
This review examines how microplastics in the food chain can carry and concentrate organic pollutants like pesticides and industrial chemicals, making them more dangerous together than either would be alone. Microplastics accumulate on the surfaces of fruits and vegetables and can build up through the food web. The combined effect of microplastics and the toxic chemicals they carry poses a growing but still poorly understood threat to food safety and human health.
Legal and Safety Issues of ECs
This chapter reviews the legal and safety frameworks surrounding emerging contaminants such as microplastics, pesticides, and flame retardants, noting significant regulatory gaps and the risks posed by their increasing environmental prevalence.
Global food safety policies: Standards, challenges, and compliance
This review examines global food safety policies and identifies microplastics as one of several emerging chemical contaminants posing challenges to regulatory systems. The study found that foodborne diseases affect approximately 600 million people annually and highlights the need for effective surveillance systems, traceability technologies, and international cooperation to address new threats including microplastic contamination.
Microplastics and Nanoplastics: Emerging Contaminants in Food
This systematic review focuses on microplastics and nanoplastics as emerging contaminants in our food supply. These tiny particles enter food through packaging, processing, and environmental contamination. Current detection methods are still limited, making it difficult to fully measure how much plastic we are eating — highlighting the need for better testing to protect food safety.
Microplastics Pollution as an Invisible Potential Threat to Food Safety and Security, Policy Challenges and the Way Forward
This review synthesized studies from 1999 to 2020 on microplastics in aquatic ecosystems and human food products, documenting toxic effects from animal studies and identifying major policy gaps in plastic use and disposal regulation, particularly regarding human health risk assessment.
Prevalence and Impact of Emerging Chemical Contaminants in the Life Style Products on Human Health
This review examines emerging chemical contaminants found in everyday consumer products, including plasticizers, flame retardants, and microplastics, assessing their prevalence and potential health risks from chronic low-level exposure.
Environmental Food Contaminants and Control Recommendations
This review outlines the sources, types, and health risks of environmental food contaminants including microplastics, pesticides, and heavy metals, and provides practical control recommendations. The authors emphasize monitoring systems and improved agricultural practices as key strategies for reducing contamination.
Environmental contaminants of emerging concern in seafood – European database on contaminant levels
Researchers compiled a European database on contaminants of emerging concern found in seafood, including substances without established regulatory limits. The study documents the growing concern about chemical transfer from marine environments to food, covering a range of emerging contaminants that may interact with microplastic pollution in aquatic ecosystems.
Briefing: A new wave of pollution: the challenge of emerging contaminants
This briefing discusses emerging environmental contaminants—including microplastics, PFAS, and pharmaceutical residues—as a new wave of pollution requiring updated regulatory frameworks and monitoring strategies to protect ecosystem and human health.
Emerging contaminants – general aspects: sources, substances involved, and quantification
This review covers a range of emerging environmental contaminants — including microplastics in water bodies, pharmaceuticals, illicit drugs, and medical-use metals — discussing their sources, harmful effects, and detection methods. It provides useful context for understanding how microplastics fit into the broader landscape of modern chemical pollution threatening human and ecosystem health.
Food
This essay uses the lens of food systems to explore contemporary risks including microplastic contamination, food insecurity, and toxicity in our food supply. It applies a 'pharmakon' framework—food as simultaneously nourishing and potentially harmful—to analyze modern food challenges.
A comprehensive review of emerging contaminants in water sources
This comprehensive review examines the origins and environmental significance of emerging contaminants in water sources, including pharmaceuticals, microplastics, endocrine disruptors, and PFAS chemicals. Researchers found that these persistent pollutants exhibit complex behaviors in aquatic systems and pose threats to both ecosystem and human health. The study highlights the need for advanced monitoring and treatment technologies to address the growing challenge of emerging contaminant pollution in water supplies.
Emerging Contaminants in Water: Detection, Treatment, and Regulation
This review covers emerging contaminants in water — including microplastics, pharmaceuticals, and industrial chemicals — discussing detection methods, treatment technologies, and regulatory frameworks. The authors highlight major gaps in current water quality standards and the need for updated regulations to address these newer pollutants.
Occurrence of Emerging Contaminants in the Environment Causes and Effects
This review defines and categorizes contaminants of emerging concern including microplastics, pharmaceuticals, personal care products, and pesticides, summarizing their sources, environmental occurrence, and potential treatment strategies.