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Microplastics and Nanoplastics in Food, Water and Environmental Safety

Edited by:

Tanja Cirkovic Velickovic, PhD, University of Belgrade, Serbia
Maaike Vercauteren, PhD, Universiteit Gent, Belgium

Submission Status: Open   |   Submission Deadline: 30 November 2025
 

Food Safety and Risk is calling for submissions to our Collection on Microplastics and Nanoplastics in Food, Water and Environmental Safety.

This thematic series focusses on reporting contaminants predominantly in food as well as water and environmental safety assessing effects, risks and allowing extrapolation between test systems and between particles.  

For further information, please read the About the Collection section below.

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New Content ItemThis Collection supports and amplifies research related to SDG 2: Zero Hunger 

Meet the Guest Editors

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Tanja Cirkovic Velickovic, PhD, University of Belgrade, Serbia

Dr Tanja Cirkovic Velickovic is a Full Professor of Biochemistry at the Faculty of Chemistry, University of Belgrade since 2013. Since 2018, she is a member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts. She serves as Head of the Centre of Research Excellence for Molecular Food Sciences (CMFS) and a team leader of Proteomics group. She serves as a member of Food Chemistry Division of EuChemMS. Her research interests involve food safety, food allergens, food pollutants, particularly micro- and nanoplastics and their interactions with various food contaminants. She has published more than 140 articles, 1 book, seven book chapters.

Maaike Vercauteren, PhD, Universiteit Gent, Belgium

Maaike Vercauteren obtained her master degree of Science in Biology. She continued her scientific career as a PhD student at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine (Ghent University) focusing on the etiology of skin ulcerations in flatfish in the Belgian Part of the North Sea. Currently, she works as a postdoctoral researcher focusing on the environmental and human health effects of micro- and nanoplastics pollution. She has expertise in analytical tools for microplastic characterization, as well as effect assessment analysis using various experimental setups, statistical analytical methods and machine learning models.
 

About the Collection

Food Safety and Risk is calling for submissions to our Collection on Microplastics and Nanoplastics in Food, Water and Environmental Safety.

Since the term microplastics surfaced in early years of this century its presence in the environment and food chain has become an area of great interest and concern. Contamination by microplastic in air, land, aquatic bodies, flora and fauna are being investigated through multidisciplinary research efforts. In the current research, attention is being given to interactions of microplastic and nanoplastics with human, plant and animal hosts, as well as with other biotic and abiotic contaminants. Owing to its durable nature, inertness, and slow degradation, microplastic and nanoplastics will continue to increase in volume and linger when left without mediation.

This thematic series focusses on reporting contaminants predominantly in food as well as water and environmental safety assessing effects, risks and allowing extrapolation between test systems and between particles.

Topics are, but not limited to:


- Prevalence of different microplastics in environment and food chain

- Innovative detection methods for micro-and nanoplastics

- Toxicity of micro- and nano-plastics

- Microbial interactions on microplastics

- Interaction of microplastics with food and environmental contaminants

- Microplastics as allergens (carriers)

- Legislation

- Human health risk assessment


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  1. In many countries like Pakistan, where crops are irrigated by wastewater, the accumulation of heavy metals is a serious problem, especially when such an irrigation is a widespread practice. The focus of this s...

    Authors: Mian Abdul Khaliq, Muhammad Tariq Javed, Sajjad Hussain, Muhammad Imran, Muhammad Mubeen, Wajid Nasim, Shah Fahad, Shankar Karuppannan, Wafa’a A. Al-Taisan, Hussein Almohamad, Ahmed Abdullah Al Dughairi, Motrih Al-Mutiry, Mona Alrasheedi and Hazem Ghassan Abdo
    Citation: International Journal of Food Contamination 2022 9:11
    Content type: Research Published on:

  2. With most of the plastics ever produced now being waste, slowly degrading and fragmenting in the environment, microplastics (MPs) have become an emerging concern regarding their presence in food and influence ...

    Authors: Bozidar Udovicki, Mirjana Andjelkovic, Tanja Cirkovic-Velickovic and Andreja Rajkovic
    Citation: International Journal of Food Contamination 2022 9:7
    Content type: Review Published on:

  3. Microplastics (MPs) are emerging contaminants of concern in aquatic ecosystems. Up to now, only a few studies about MP contamination in drinking water have been published. In this study, we analysed drinking w...

    Authors: Ilias Semmouri, Maaike Vercauteren, Emmanuel Van Acker, Emmy Pequeur, Jana Asselman and Colin Janssen
    Citation: International Journal of Food Contamination 2022 9:6
    Content type: Research Published on:

Submission Guidelines

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Articles for this Collection should be submitted via our submission system, Snapp. Please, select the appropriate Collection title “Microplastics and Nanoplastics in Food, Water and Environmental Safety" under the “Details” tab during the submission stage.

Articles will undergo the journal’s standard peer-review process and are subject to all the journal’s standard policies. Articles will be added to the Collection as they are published.

The Editors have no competing interests with the submissions which they handle through the peer-review process. The peer-review of any submissions for which the Editors have competing interests is handled by another Editorial Board Member who has no competing interests.