printing and packaging industries make three phases of solid, liquid and gaseous contaminants which can cause very dangerous problems. the presence of alcohols, inks, and cleaners can result in massive range of industrial pollutants. always respiratory problems, fatigue, dizziness, weakness, abnormal behavior, memory impairment, insomnia, loss of appetite, and impaired vision and hearing and ca...

This Special Issue in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health focuses on the inter-linkage between the global distribution of contaminants and climate change. The climate has always changed, but now the international scientific community expects that anthropogenic-induced climatic change will lead many places to experience weather and environments that are warmer a...

Environmental contamination of food is a worldwide public health problem. Folate mediated onecarbon metabolism plays an important role in epigenetic regulation of gene expression and mutagenesis. Many contaminants in food cause cancer through epigenetic mechanisms and/or DNA instability i.e. default methylation of uracil to thymine, subsequent to the decrease of 5-methyltetrahydrofolate (5 mTHF...

In a research project by Iceland under the auspice of the Marine Research Institute Iceland in 2003-2007, 200 minke whales (Balaenoptera acutorostrata) were caught in Icelandic waters. Within this research effort of Iceland, a comprehensive research activites were devoted to analysis of trace elements and organic contaminants in both different tissues of the minke whale and its possible prey sp...