BookYunhui Zhang, editor.
Summary: This book mainly focuses on advances made over the past 10 years on the exposure, metabolism, transformation, toxicity, molecular mechanism and biomarkers of emerging chemicals in humans. Emerging chemicals' pollution is a hot issue in the field of environmental health. Emerging chemicals refer to a class of compounds widely existing in the environment and potentially harmful to the ecological environment and human health. They are also the preferred substances for future environmental control. The list of emerging chemicals include human drugs and personal care products (PPCPs), endocrine disruptors (EDC), persistent organic pollutants (POPs), veterinary drugs and nanomaterials. However, the environmental and health hazard characteristics of most emerging chemicals are not clear. The aim of this book is to stimulate further research in new directions by providing novel and provocative insights into the exposure assessment and potential mechanisms of emerging chemicals in humans. It also offers a state-of-the-art report on recent discoveries concerning emerging chemicals and where the field is going.
Contents:
Introduction
Emerging chemicals of concern
Environmental exposure of emerging chemicals and their effects on human health
Air pollutants: exposure, effects on cardiopulmonary and metabolic disease, and regulation
Plasticizers' exposure and reproductive& developmental health: phthalates and BPA
Exposure assessment of UV filter and its effect on humans
Heavy metals' exposure and children health
Pesticides: environmental exposure, toxicity and mechanism
Flame retardants: exposure, biomarkers and health risks
Perfluorinated compounds' exposure and health effects in humans
Environmental antibiotics: monitoring and health-based risk assessment
Advances in nano-material and micro-plastics' research.