Journal
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH
Volume 28, Issue 39, Pages 54511-54530Publisher
SPRINGER HEIDELBERG
DOI: 10.1007/s11356-021-16069-6
Keywords
Food safety; Environmental pollution; Food packaging; Biodegradable polymers; Biosensors; Microplastics; Soil pollution
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- Beijing Municipal Commission of Education [PXM2019_014213_000007]
- School Level Cultivation Fund of Beijing Technology and Business University for Distinguished and Excellent Young Scholars [BTBUYP2020]
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The study found that research on environment and food safety has been steadily growing and is diverse and multidisciplinary. Emerging topics such as new contaminants, rapid detection methods, and environmentally friendly packaging materials were discussed, along with current challenges and future research directions.
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.
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