Ecological and Human Health Impacts of Contaminated Food and Environments

by Ming Hung Wong (Editor)

Overview

This book discusses linkages between the natural and disturbed chemical composition of the earth's surface and ecological and human health. It reviews the environmental geochemical cycles of natural elements and persistent toxic substances (PTS) in the environment, highlighting the degradation of soil and water resources due to human activities such as extraction and usage of minerals. There is an attempt to provide evidence concerning the health effects of consuming contaminated food, due to frequent consumption of mercury-laden fish. Lastly, sources, fates, and ecological effects of various PTS are presented, including microplastics and associated chemicals.

• Details linkages between the natural and disturbed chemical composition of the earth’s surface, and environmental and human health, focusing on food contamination
• Discusses emerging pollutants with potential widespread hazardous effects such as bisphenol A and phthalates
• Reviews safe food production and quality, as well as the management, regulation and policies concerning toxic chemicals
• Contains cutting edge knowledge on safe food production and remediating technologies
• Describes how geochemical cycling results in food contamination

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781040365205
Publisher:	CRC Press
Publication date:	07/16/2025
Series:	Urbanization, Industrialization, and the Environment
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	458
File size:	10 MB

About the Author

Professor Wong is a Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts and Chang Jiang Chair Professor of the Ministry of Education, China. He served as the Editor-in-Chief of ‘Environmental Geochemistry and Health’ for 20 years (2002-2023). Professor Wong was the Coordinator of Central and North-East Asia of ‘Regionally Based Assessment of Persistent Toxic Substances’ and a Panel Member (of 3 experts) of ‘Chemicals Management Issues of Developing Countries and Countries with Economies in Transition’, sponsored by UNEP/GEF, during 2001-2003 and 2010-2012, respectively.

His research areas included ‘Environmental toxicology’; ‘Ecological restoration’; and ‘Resource reuse’. He has published over 850 SCI papers. In addition to his PhD (Durham), he was awarded two higher Doctoral Degrees based on published papers in 1992 and 2004: DSc (Durham) and DSc (Strathclyde). Recently, he has been awarded an Honorary DSc from the Southern Federal University, Russia (31 May 2024), in recognition of his involvement as the Lead Scientist in the Mega Project on Bioremediation of Polluted Ecosystems sponsored by the Russian Government.

Professor Wong is ranked 6th for 3 years and 8th for 2 years (career-long ranking) globally in Environmental Science according to the World’s Top 2% Scientists (Stanford University, 2020-2024). Based on Research.com's Best Researchers in Various Disciplines (2023, 2024), he ranked No. 1 in China under Environmental Science.

Table of Contents

I. ENVIRONMENTAL CONTAMINANTS AND THEIR MANAGEMENT

· Chapter 1: Managing legacy POPs and emerging chemicals: Insights from UNEP/GEF Projects
Ming Hung Wong

· Chapter 2: International institutional linkages between ecological challenges and human health
Sidan Wang

· Chapter 3: Laws and regulations of food contaminants pertinent to public health and food safety in the Asia Pacific

James Tsz-fung Wong, Ming Huang Wong

· Chapter 4: Organic agriculture as a tool to promote, assess and communicate health and environmental risks: The case of organic tea in China
Jiping Sheng , Ksenia Gerasimova

II. SOURCES AND EXPOSURE PATHWAYS

· Chapter 5: Persistent Toxic Substances emitted from biomass combustion and their health impacts
Ekaterina Kravchenko

· Chapter 6: Heavy metals in food products: An insight into food security as a global problem
Muhammad Ubaid Ali

· Chapter 7: Soil health restoration: A focus on soil microbiome engineering
Xun Wen Chen

· Chapter 8: Exposure pathways and human health risks of PFAS
Cheng Shen ,Jin Zhang

· Chapter 9: Potential health impacts of microplastics and associated chemicals
Yating Luo, Haibo Zhang

· Chapter 10: Detection of PTS discharged from molasses-based distilleries and their environmental health hazards
Kshitij Singh , Ram Chandra

III. CASE STUDIES IN VIETNAM

· Chapter 11: Monitoring of persistent bioaccumulative toxic (PBT) substances in Vietnam: Contamination profiles, source characterization, and health risk assessment
Hoang Quoc Anh ,Tu Binh Minh

· Chapter 12: Contaminants of emerging concern in Vietnamese environments: A recent assessment of pollution status, emission sources, and human health risks
Tran Manh Tri ,Tu Binh Minh

IV. BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLES AND HEALTH RISKS

· Chapter 13: Global biogeochemical cycle of mercury and critical factors in determining mercury levels in fish
Martin Tsz-Ki Tsui

· Chapter 14: Copper fungicide accumulation in crops and soils: Human and environmental health risks
Dasom Jeon , Nicholas Dickinson

· Chapter 15: Arsenic pathways from the environment to the human body: The case of rice consumption
Thanh Son Tran, Kyoung-Woong Kim

· Chapter 16: Arsenic in rice: Existing know-hows and prospects of probable mitigation approaches to limit As body loading
MD Rokonuzzaman ,WC Li

· Chapter 17: The opposite soil dynamics of arsenic and cadmium and their shared ecological effects in paddy fields
Yihan Chi, Yuanyuan Tang

· Chapter 18: Cancer, kidney, and bone disease owing to long-term consumption of crops containing high cadmium levels
Anwen Xiao

V. IMPACTS ON HUMAN HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENT

· Chapter 19: Effects of exposure to low and high concentrations of trace elements on male infertility
Leonid Perelomov

· Chapter 20: Endocrine disruption in maternal health and early developmental outcomes
Yujing Chen , Ming Kei Chung

· Chapter 21: Exploring endocrine disruptors: Implications for health and child development
Ziying Li, Yi Yang