Guest Editors

Prof. Yu Zhang

College of Biosystems Engineering and Food Science, Zhejiang University

E-mail: y_zhang@zju.edu.cn

Prof. Shutao Yin

College of Food Science and Nutritional Engineering, China Agricultural University

E-mail: yinshutao@cau.edu.cn

Prof. Qingli Dong
School of Health Science and Engineering, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology

E-mail: qdong@usst.edu.cn

 Prof. Yueliang Zhao

School of Public Health, Shanghai Jiao Tong University

E-mail: ylzhao1@sjtu.edu.cn

Prof. Xiao Li Shen

School of Public Health, Zunyi Medical University

E-mail: xiaolishen1983@163.com

Description

With the continuous improvement of people's living standards, there is an increasing demand for food safety, and there is an urgent need for risk assessment and toxicological mechanism research on components that endanger food safety. Various substances, such as biotoxins produced during the growth, processing, storage, and transportation of agricultural products, chemical hazards produced during food processing, chemical hazards migrating from food packaging, and emerging environmental pollutants contaminating food, all pose threats to food safety. The risks and toxicological mechanisms of these hazards require systematic and in-depth research, and dietary mitigation strategies and mechanisms for the toxicity of hazards also need further study.
  Based on this, the journal Food Science and Human Wellness plans to launch a special column themed "Food Toxicology and Risk Assessment." The core objective of this column is to establish a communication platform focused on food toxicology and risk assessment, concentrating on risk assessment and toxicological mechanisms of food components and food contaminants, as well as research on dietary mitigation mechanisms for the toxicity of hazards, so as to ensure food safety and promote public health.

The scope of this special column includes, but is not limited to:

• Toxicology and risk assessment of biotoxins: original research or review on the health risks and toxicological mechanisms of biotoxins contaminating food, epidemiological evidence, causal relationships and mechanisms between such toxins and specific diseases, and the risks and toxicological mechanisms of combined exposure to multiple biotoxins, etc.
• Toxicology and risk assessment of chemical hazards: original research or review on the health risks and toxicological mechanisms of chemical hazards contaminating food or produced during food processing, epidemiological evidence, causal relationships and mechanisms between such hazards and specific diseases, and the risks and toxicological mechanisms of combined exposure to multiple chemical hazards, etc.
• Risk assessment of biosynthetic foods: Original research or reviews on the potential health risks and toxicological mechanisms, allergenicity assessment, toxicological mechanisms and safety evaluation of unintended (unknown) products, and risk prediction for long-term exposure of novel foods or food ingredients produced using synthetic biology technologies.
• Dietary mitigation mechanisms for the toxicity of biochemical hazards: original research or review on dietary mitigation mechanisms for the toxicity of biochemical hazards contaminating food, etc.
• Methods for food toxicology and risk assessment: original research or review on the application prospects of new toxicological methods and alternative toxicological methods in food toxicology, and risk assessment of emerging food contaminants, etc.

Keywords

biotoxins; chemical hazards; bio-synthesized foods; toxicology; risk assessment; toxicity mitigation

Submission Guidelines

• Manuscript Type: Food Toxicology and Risk Assessment (please select this article type during submission).
• Submission Deadline: April 31, 2027
• Expected Publication Date: October 30, 2027
• Online Submission System: https://mc03.manuscriptcentral.com/fshw
• Editorial Office Email: fshw@foodsci.cn