Environmental Residues and Contaminants

Environmental contaminants and food safety

Food safety is threatened by numerous contaminants, which can originate from environmental pollution, such as toxic metals and organic halogenated compounds; chemicals used in the production of food, such as pesticides and veterinary drugs; contaminants formed during food production and cooking; contaminants arising from food packaging, or natural toxins in food. Consumers’ perceptions of food-...

Environmental contaminants and intestinal function

THE ENVIRONMENTAL CONTAMINANTS WHICH HAVE THEIR MAJOR EFFECTS ON THE SMALL INTESTINE MAY BE CLASSIFIED INTO FIVE MAJOR CATEGORIES: (1) bacterial, viral, and parasitic agents, (2) food and plant substances, (3) environmental and industrial products, (4) pharmaceutical agents, and (5) toxic agents whose metabolic effects are dependent on interreaction with intestinal bacterial flora, other physic...

Toxicity of Environmental Contaminants

1Solid and Hazardous Waste Management Division, CSIR-NEERI, Nehru Marg, Nagpur 440 020, India 2Department of Civil Engineering, Center for Environmental Engineering Research and Education, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada T2N 1N4 3Centre for Plant and Water Science, Central Queensland University, Rockhampton, QLD 4702, Australia 4Department of Environmental Engineering, Technical Univ...

Environmental Contaminants in Food

Environmental Contaminants and Pancreatic Beta-Cells

Despite health policies as well as clinical and research efforts, diabetes prevalence is still rising around the world. A multitude of causes have been suggested for this increase, mostly related to familial background, the occidental diet which is rich in fat/carbohydrates, and sedentary life style. Type 2 diabetes involves malfunctions of the primary pancreatic beta-cells, usually attributed ...