Persistent Organic Pollutants in Food: Contamination Sources, Health Effects and Detection Methods

Persistent organic pollutants (POPs) present in foods have been a major concern for food safety due to their persistence and toxic effects. To ensure food safety and protect human health from POPs, it is critical to achieve a better understanding of POP pathways into food and develop strategies to r...

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Published in:International journal of environmental research and public health 2019-11, Vol.16 (22), p.4361
Main Authors: Guo, Wenjing, Pan, Bohu, Sakkiah, Sugunadevi, Yavas, Gokhan, Ge, Weigong, Zou, Wen, Tong, Weida, Hong, Huixiao
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Environmental Monitoring
Environmental Pollutants - chemistry
Food contamination
Food Contamination - analysis
Food Safety
Food sources
Humans
Persistent organic pollutants
Pollutants
Pollution detection
Pollution sources
Review
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Summary:Persistent organic pollutants (POPs) present in foods have been a major concern for food safety due to their persistence and toxic effects. To ensure food safety and protect human health from POPs, it is critical to achieve a better understanding of POP pathways into food and develop strategies to reduce human exposure. POPs could present in food in the raw stages, transferred from the environment or artificially introduced during food preparation steps. Exposure to these pollutants may cause various health problems such as endocrine disruption, cardiovascular diseases, cancers, diabetes, birth defects, and dysfunctional immune and reproductive systems. This review describes potential sources of POP food contamination, analytical approaches to measure POP levels in food and efforts to control food contamination with POPs.
ISSN:1660-4601
1661-7827
1660-4601
DOI:10.3390/ijerph16224361