Crop Pollution, Health, and Risks: Population Growth Challenges

The “Crop pollution, health, and risk: the population growth challenges” research topic encourages authors to submit original research and review articles and focuses on crops and agricultural soils contaminated by pollutants and covers four aspects: health and environmental risks assessment, monitoring of emerging pollutants (nanomaterials, micro- nano plastics, pharmaceuticals, etc.) and potentially toxic elements, microbial and chemical monitoring, and toxicology of agrochemicals. The presented research topic is not just limited to the above-mentioned areas and invites novel, high-quality, and high-impact reviews and fundamental research papers that are concerned with the chemical and microbial contamination of crops. Today, modern farming methods use hundreds of agrochemicals (pesticides, pharmaceuticals, fertilizers, etc.) to increase productivity, a portion of which can be entirely adsorbed and uptaken by the crops. However, other pathways, such as irrigation by water (polluted water and wastewater) and air precipitate can be a source of contaminants, especially some emerging contaminants such as pharmaceuticals or nano plastics. These can all reach agroecosystems and impact soil and crop productivity where used chemicals and their by-products have the potential to cause both environmental and health risks. They have both chronic and acute health consequences and affect the soil quality and crop yield due to the changing chemical and biological properties.All of thes...