Metabolomics is a discipline aiming to characterize the presence of metabolites in biological matrices under specific conditions. In recent years, metabolomics has increasingly been used environmental research explore metabolic changes humans and organisms diverse exposures, mainly chemical pollutants. Hence, become key tool exposome studies, effects at molecular level exerted by xenobiotics. T...

SPECIALTY GRAND CHALLENGE article Front. Environ. Sci., 20 September 2022Sec. Environmental Citizen Science Volume 10 - 2022 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fenvs.2022.1019628

After three decades of exceptional economic growth, China has become a global economic powerhouse. As the economy has grown, though, so have China’s environmental challenges, causing enormous socioeconomic consequences for China and the rest of the world. The global financial crisis has prompted China to create more domestic demand for consumption and implement massive infrastructure constructi...