Food Control,
Journal Year:
2023,
Volume and Issue:
155, P. 110040 - 110040
Published: Aug. 14, 2023
Human
exposure
to
chemical
contaminants
in
food
has
resulted
into
various
health
related
problems.
To
prevent
and
mitigate
hazardous
food,
it
is
imperative
understand
the
sources
resultant
problems
when
exposed.
The
article,
therefore,
brings
light
issue
of
contamination
which
become
a
growing
concern
due
its
potential
harm
human
health.
This
line
with
United
Nations'
sustainable
development
goal
number
three,
seeks
substantial
reduction
illnesses
from
by
2030.
It
covers
range
topics,
including
contamination,
that
can
arise
these
contaminants,
presence
naturally
occurring
food.
article
emphasizes
production
process,
processing,
packaging,
transportation,
storage,
greatly
contribute
contamination.
suggests
appropriate
legislative
measures,
along
strong
surveillance
enforcement,
help
reduce
amount
achieve
this,
advocates
for
continued
minimal
There
need
consider
economic
impact
diseases
caused
toxic
global
sustainability
best
practices
goals.
Finally,
adopting
around
world,
we
bridge
knowledge
gaps
provide
benefits
developing
countries.
Critical Reviews in Environmental Science and Technology,
Journal Year:
2023,
Volume and Issue:
54(14), P. 1023 - 1049
Published: Nov. 29, 2023
Polychlorinated
biphenyls
(PCBs)
are
a
class
of
synthetic
organic
compounds
that
widely
distributed
in
the
environment
and
have
significant
adverse
effects
on
humans
as
well
ecosystem.
Many
microorganisms
can
degrade
PCBs
been
reported,
including
monocultures
bacteria
fungi,
natural
artificial
microbial
consortia.
Generally,
anaerobic
dechlorination
highly
chlorinated
to
reduce
their
toxicity,
while
aerobic
oxidation
degrades
lowly
(four
or
fewer
chlorine
atoms)
realizes
complete
mineralization
into
CO2
by
disrupting
benzene
ring
structure.
Due
need
for
metabolism
wide
range
PCB
congeners
environment,
consortia
become
research
hotspot,
species
diversity
facilitates
metabolic
cooperation,
enabling
them
undertake
more
complex
tasks.
In
this
review,
we
will
discuss
mechanisms
degradation
consortia,
focus
recent
progress
development
optimization
PCB-degrading
community
composition
analysis
methods,
prevailing
strategies
such
biostimulation,
bioaugmentation,
metagenomics,
combination
other
methods
better
remediation
effect,
which
provide
theoretical
practical
bases
rational
design,
construction
further
efficient
high-efficiency
PCBs.
