Following a request from EFSA, the Panel on Plant Protection Products and their Residues
developed an opinion on the science behind the risk assessment of plant protection …

The continuous discharge of diverse chemical products in the environment is nowadays of
great concern to the whole world as some of them persist in the environment leading to …

The increasing application of biosolids and agrochemicals containing silver nanoparticles
(AgNPs) and titanium dioxide nanoparticles (TiO2NPs) results in their inevitable …

Abstract Background Copper (Cu), zinc (Zn), cadmium (Cd), and lead (Pb) can pose serious
threats to environmental health because they tend to bioaccumulate in terrestrial …

Caenorhabditis elegans has been an invaluable model organism in research fields such as
developmental biology and neurobiology. Neurotoxicity is one of the subfields greatly …

Environmental pollution caused by human activities is a global public health concern. This
review discusses the impact of different types of pollutants such as pesticides, metals …

Silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) have extensive applications in nanomedicine and
parasitology, particularly as antifungal, bactericidal, antiviral, larvicidal, mosquitocidal, and …

Polyethylene terephthalate (PET) is one of the main plastic polymers contaminating natural
ecosystems. Although PET microplastics (PET-MPs) have been found in both aquatic and …

The study was prompted to characterize the B-type esterase activities in the terrestrial snail
Xeropicta derbentina and to evaluate its sensitivity to organophosphorus and carbamate …

The chemical contamination of terrestrial ecosystems is a great concern as these
ecosystems are the target of most of the pollutants derived from anthropogenic activities …