Environment and food safety: a novel integrative review.

Shanxue Jiang, Fang Wang, Qirun Li, Haishu Sun, Huijiao Wang, Zhiliang Yao

Environmental science and pollution research international 2021 Oct

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Environment protection and food safety are two critical issues in the world. In this review, a novel approach which integrates statistical study and subjective discussion was adopted to review recent advances on environment and food safety. Firstly, a scientometric-based statistical study was conducted based on 4904 publications collected from the Web of Science Core Collection database. It was found that the research on environment and food safety was growing steadily from 2001 to 2020. Interestingly, the statistical analysis of most-cited papers, titles, abstracts, keywords, and research areas revealed that the research on environment and food safety was diverse and multidisciplinary. In addition to the scientometric study, strategies to protect environment and ensure food safety were critically discussed, followed by a discussion on the emerging research topics, including emerging contaminates (e.g., microplastics), rapid detection of contaminants (e.g., biosensors), and environment friendly food packaging materials (e.g., biodegradable polymers). Finally, current challenges and future research directions were proposed. © 2021. The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature.

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Shanxue Jiang, Fang Wang, Qirun Li, Haishu Sun, Huijiao Wang, Zhiliang Yao. Environment and food safety: a novel integrative review. Environmental science and pollution research international. 2021 Oct;28(39):54511-54530