Ecological and Human Health Impacts of Contaminated Food and Environments

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