Biomarkers of Susceptibility for Human Exposure to Environmental Contaminants

Use of personal care products and household and commercial cleaners with antibacterial capabilities has increased human exposure to an array of chemicals. Because these products are washed down the drain, they are discharged with wastewater into fields, lakes, streams, oceans, and municipal water systems. This chapter focuses on the uses, persistence, routes of human exposure, and potential health effects of four common environmental chemicals or chemical classes—parabens, triclosan, triclocarban, and quaternary ammonium compounds—because exposure to them is ubiquitous, environmental contamination is significant, and evidence of harm has emerged. These man-made environmental contaminants illustrate how the rapid introduction of new chemicals into consumer products must be weighed against the unavoidable environmental contamination and potential biologic effects that may ensue.

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Human exposure to environmental contaminants and congenital anomalies: a critical review

Critical Reviews in Toxicology ◽

10.1080/10408444.2016.1211090 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 47 (1) ◽

pp. 59-84 ◽

Cited By ~ 15

Author(s):

Warren G. Foster ◽

Jane A. Evans ◽

Julian Little ◽

Laura Arbour ◽

Aideen Moore ◽

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Keyword(s):

Critical Review ◽

Congenital Anomalies ◽

Human Exposure ◽

Environmental Contaminants

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Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in edible grain: A pilot study of agricultural crops as a human exposure pathway for environmental contaminants using wheat as a model crop

Environmental Research ◽

10.1016/j.envres.2007.11.002 ◽

2008 ◽

Vol 107 (2) ◽

pp. 145-151 ◽

Cited By ~ 38

Author(s):

Reiko Kobayashi ◽

Robert A. Okamoto ◽

Randy L. Maddalena ◽

Norman Y. Kado

Keyword(s):

Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons ◽

Pilot Study ◽

Aromatic Hydrocarbons ◽

Human Exposure ◽

Environmental Contaminants ◽

Agricultural Crops ◽

Exposure Pathway ◽

Polycyclic Aromatic ◽

Model Crop

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Micro-plastics: An invisible danger to human health

CGC International Journal of Contemporary Technology and Research ◽

10.46860/cgcijctr.2021.06.31.182 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 3 (2) ◽

pp. 182-186

Author(s):

Renuka Sharma ◽

Himanshi Kaushik

Keyword(s):

Drinking Water ◽

Human Health ◽

Scientific Knowledge ◽

Human Exposure ◽

Environmental Contaminants ◽

Critical Issue ◽

Body Fluids ◽

Future Research ◽

Table Salt ◽

Pathways Of Toxicity

Microplastics are small plastic pieces ranging between the size of 1-5 micrometre (µm). Because of their small size and their continuity, it has the potential to spread throughout all parts of our environment. These are ubiquitous environmental contaminants leading to inevitable human exposure. It can enter our bodies through ingestion, inhalation and dermal contact. It has already been found in various human foods, beers, drinking water, honey, seafood, sugar, table salt etc. It is demonstrated that marine organisms including zooplanktons, bivalves, crustaceans, worms, fish, reptiles etc. ingest microplastic. Around 2% to 40% of fishes were found to be contaminated with microplastic. It can reach our stomach and due to its size , these are either excreted, get entrapped in intestinal lining and stomach or move freely in body fluids like blood, thereby reaching various organs and tissues of body. To tackle this serious issue of microplastic pollution in environment and in human health, various effective policies must take under consideration all stages of lifecycle of plastic connecting producers to users and ultimately to waste managers. Thus, we have to seem for potential effects of microplastics in living beings, which specializes in the pathways of toxicity and exposure, way to reduce microplastic pollution, sources of invisible plastics. Present work was conducted to explore the possible threats of micro as well as nanoplastic particles to humanity as well as to our ecosystem. Under this study we summarized various aspects of this critical issue, which provide better scientific knowledge for future research.

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