Ecological and Human Health Impacts of Contaminated Food and Environments

Professor Wong is a Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts and Chang Jiang Chair Professor of the Ministry of Education, China. He served as the Editor-in-Chief of ‘Environmental Geochemistry and Health’ for 20 years (2002-2023). Professor Wong was the Coordinator of Central and North-East Asia of ‘Regionally Based Assessment of Persistent Toxic Substances’ and a Panel Member (of 3 experts) of ‘Chemicals Management Issues of Developing Countries and Countries with Economies in Transition’, sponsored by UNEP/GEF, during 2001-2003 and 2010-2012, respectively.His research areas included ‘Environmental toxicology’; ‘Ecological restoration’; and ‘Resource reuse’. He has published over 850 SCI papers. In addition to his PhD (Durham), he was awarded two higher Doctoral Degrees based on published papers in 1992 and 2004: DSc (Durham) and DSc (Strathclyde). Recently, he has been awarded an Honorary DSc from the Southern Federal University, Russia (31 May 2024), in recognition of his involvement as the Lead Scientist in the Mega Project on Bioremediation of Polluted Ecosystems sponsored by the Russian Government.Professor Wong is ranked 6th for 3 years and 8th for 2 years (career-long ranking) globally in Environmental Science according to the World’s Top 2% Scientists (Stanford University, 2020-2024). Based on Research.com's Best Researchers in Various Disciplines (2023, 2024), he ranked No. 1 in China under Environmental Science.

• I. ENVIRONMENTAL CONTAMINANTS AND THEIR MANAGEMENT· Chapter 1: Managing legacy POPs and emerging chemicals: Insights from UNEP/GEF ProjectsMing Hung Wong· Chapter 2: International institutional linkages between ecological challenges and human healthSidan Wang· Chapter 3: Laws and regulations of food contaminants pertinent to public health and food safety in the Asia PacificJames Tsz-fung Wong, Ming Huang Wong· Chapter 4: Organic agriculture as a tool to promote, assess and communicate health and environmental risks: The case of organic tea in ChinaJiping Sheng , Ksenia GerasimovaII. SOURCES AND EXPOSURE PATHWAYS· Chapter 5: Persistent Toxic Substances emitted from biomass combustion and their health impactsEkaterina Kravchenko· Chapter 6: Heavy metals in food products: An insight into food security as a global problemMuhammad Ubaid Ali· Chapter 7: Soil health restoration: A focus on soil microbiome engineeringXun Wen Chen· Chapter 8: Exposure pathways and human health risks of PFASCheng Shen ,Jin Zhang· Chapter 9: Potential health impacts of microplastics and associated chemicalsYating Luo, Haibo Zhang· Chapter 10: Detection of PTS discharged from molasses-based distilleries and their environmental health hazardsKshitij Singh , Ram ChandraIII. CASE STUDIES IN VIETNAM· Chapter 11: Monitoring of persistent bioaccumulative toxic (PBT) substances in Vietnam: Contamination profiles, source characterization, and health risk assessmentHoang Quoc Anh ,Tu Binh Minh· Chapter 12: Contaminants of emerging concern in Vietnamese environments: A recent assessment of pollution status, emission sources, and human health risksTran Manh Tri ,Tu Binh MinhIV. BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLES AND HEALTH RISKS· Chapter 13: Global biogeochemical cycle of mercury and critical factors in determining mercury levels in fishMartin Tsz-Ki Tsui· Chapter 14: Copper fungicide accumulation in crops and soils: Human and environmental health risksDasom Jeon , Nicholas Dickinson· Chapter 15: Arsenic pathways from the environment to the human body: The case of rice consumptionThanh Son Tran, Kyoung-Woong Kim· Chapter 16: Arsenic in rice: Existing know-hows and prospects of probable mitigation approaches to limit As body loadingMD Rokonuzzaman ,WC Li· Chapter 17: The opposite soil dynamics of arsenic and cadmium and their shared ecological effects in paddy fieldsYihan Chi, Yuanyuan Tang· Chapter 18: Cancer, kidney, and bone disease owing to long-term consumption of crops containing high cadmium levelsAnwen XiaoV. IMPACTS ON HUMAN HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENT· Chapter 19: Effects of exposure to low and high concentrations of trace elements on male infertilityLeonid Perelomov· Chapter 20: Endocrine disruption in maternal health and early developmental outcomesYujing Chen , Ming Kei Chung· Chapter 21: Exploring endocrine disruptors: Implications for health and child developmentZiying Li, Yi Yang