Emerging contaminants: A One Health perspective

Fang Wang^{1

2}, Leilei Xiang^{1

2}, Kelvin Sze-Yin Leung^{3

4}, Martin Elsner⁵, Ying Zhang⁶, Yuming Guo⁷, Bo Pan⁸, Hongwen Sun⁹, Taicheng An¹⁰, Guangguo Ying¹¹, Bryan W Brooks^{12

13}, Deyi Hou¹⁴, Damian E Helbling¹⁵, Jianqiang Sun¹⁶, Hao Qiu¹⁷, Timothy M Vogel¹⁸, Wei Zhang¹⁹, Yanzheng Gao²⁰, Myrna J Simpson²¹, Yi Luo^{9

22}, Scott X Chang²³, Guanyong Su²⁴, Bryan M Wong²⁵, Tzung-May Fu²⁶, Dong Zhu²⁷, Karl J Jobst²⁸, Chengjun Ge²⁹, Frederic Coulon³⁰, Jean Damascene Harindintwali^{1

2}, Xiankui Zeng³¹, Haijun Wang³², Yuhao Fu^{1

2}, Zhong Wei³³, Rainer Lohmann³⁴, Changer Chen¹¹, Yang Song^{1

2}, Concepcion Sanchez-Cid³⁵, Yu Wang^{1

2}, Ali El-Naggar^{36

23}, Yiming Yao⁹, Yanran Huang³⁷, Japhet Cheuk-Fung Law³, Chenggang Gu^{1

2}, Huizhong Shen²⁶, Yanpeng Gao¹⁰, Chao Qin²⁰, Hao Li⁸, Tong Zhang³⁸, Natàlia Corcoll³⁹, Min Liu⁴⁰, Daniel S Alessi⁴¹, Hui Li¹⁹, Kristian K Brandt^{42

43}, Yolanda Pico⁴⁴, Cheng Gu²², Jianhua Guo⁴⁵, Jianqiang Su²⁷, Philippe Corvini⁴⁶, Mao Ye^{1

2}, Teresa Rocha-Santos⁴⁷, Huan He⁴⁸, Yi Yang⁴⁰, Meiping Tong⁴⁹, Weina Zhang¹⁰, Fidèle Suanon^{27

50}, Ferdi Brahushi⁵¹, Zhenyu Wang⁵², Syed A Hashsham^{53

54}, Marko Virta⁵⁵, Qingbin Yuan²², Gaofei Jiang³³, Louis A Tremblay⁵⁶, Qingwei Bu⁵⁷, Jichun Wu³¹, Willie Peijnenburg^{58

59}, Edward Topp⁶⁰, Xinde Cao¹⁷, Xin Jiang^{1

2}, Minghui Zheng⁶¹, Taolin Zhang¹, Yongming Luo^{1

2}, Lizhong Zhu⁶², Xiangdong Li⁶³, Damià Barceló⁶⁴, Jianmin Chen⁶⁵, Baoshan Xing⁶⁶, Wulf Amelung^{67

68}, Zongwei Cai⁶⁹, Ravi Naidu^{70

71}, Qirong Shen³³, Janusz Pawliszyn⁷², Yong-Guan Zhu^{2

27

73}, Andreas Schaeffer⁷⁴, Matthias C Rillig^{75

76}, Fengchang Wu⁷⁷, Gang Yu⁷⁸, James M Tiedje⁵³

Affiliations

¹ State Key Laboratory of Soil and Sustainable Agriculture, Institute of Soil Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 210008, China.
² University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China.
³ Department of Chemistry, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong, China.
⁴ HKBU Institute of Research and Continuing Education, Shenzhen Virtual University Park, Shenzhen, China.
⁵ Technical University of Munich, TUM School of Natural Sciences, Institute of Hydrochemistry, 85748 Garching, Germany.
⁶ School of Resources & Environment, Northeast Agricultural University, Harbin 150030, China.
⁷ Climate, Air Quality Research Unit, School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.
⁸ Faculty of Environmental Science & Engineering, Kunming University of Science & Technology, Kunming 650500, China.
⁹ Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Pollution Processes and Environmental Criteria, College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Nankai University, Tianjin 300350, China.
¹⁰ Guangdong Key Laboratory of Environmental Catalysis and Health Risk Control, School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Institute of Environmental Health and Pollution Control, Guangdong University of Technology, Guangzhou 510006, China.
¹¹ Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Environmental Theoretical Chemistry, South China Normal University, Guangzhou, Guangdong 510006, China.
¹² Department of Environmental Science, Baylor University, Waco, TX, USA.
¹³ Center for Reservoir and Aquatic Systems Research (CRASR), Baylor University, Waco, TX, USA.
¹⁴ School of Environment, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China.
¹⁵ School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA.
¹⁶ Key Laboratory of Microbial Technology for Industrial Pollution Control of Zhejiang Province, Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou 310014, China.
¹⁷ School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China.
¹⁸ Laboratoire d'Ecologie Microbienne, Universite Claude Bernard Lyon 1, UMR CNRS 5557, UMR INRAE 1418, VetAgro Sup, 69622 Villeurbanne, France.
¹⁹ Department of Plant, Soil and Microbial Sciences, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA.
²⁰ Institute of Organic Contaminant Control and Soil Remediation, College of Resources and Environmental Sciences, Nanjing Agricultural University, Weigang Road 1, Nanjing 210095, China.
²¹ Environmental NMR Centre and Department of Physical and Environmental Sciences, University of Toronto Scarborough, 1265 Military Trail, Toronto, ON M1C 1A4, Canada.
²² State Key Laboratory of Pollution Control and Resource Reuse, School of the Environment, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, China.
²³ Department of Renewable Resources, University of Alberta, 442 Earth Sciences Building, Edmonton, AB T6G 2E3, Canada.
²⁴ Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Chemical Pollution Control and Resources Reuse, School of Environmental and Biological Engineering, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing 210094, China.
²⁵ Materials Science & Engineering Program, Department of Chemistry, and Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of California-Riverside, Riverside, CA, USA.
²⁶ Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Precision Measurement and Early Warning Technology for Urban Environmental Health Risks, School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen 518055, China.
²⁷ Key Laboratory of Urban Environment and Health, Institute of Urban Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xiamen 361021, China.
²⁸ Department of Chemistry, Memorial University of Newfoundland, 45 Arctic Avenue, St. John's, NL A1C 5S7, Canada.
²⁹ Key Laboratory of Agro-Forestry Environmental Processes and Ecological Regulation of Hainan Province, School of Ecological and Environmental Sciences, Hainan University, Haikou 570228, China.
³⁰ School of Water, Energy and Environment, Cranfield University, Cranfield MK43 0AL, UK.
³¹ Key Laboratory of Surficial Geochemistry, Ministry of Education, School of Earth Sciences and Engineering, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210023, China.
³² Institute for Ecological Research and Pollution Control of Plateau Lakes, School of Ecology and Environmental Science, Yunnan University, Kunming 650504, China.
³³ Jiangsu Provincial Key Lab for Organic Solid Waste Utilization, Jiangsu Collaborative Innovation Center for Solid Organic Waste Resource Utilization, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, China.
³⁴ Graduate School of Oceanography, University of Rhode Island, Narragansett, RI, USA.
³⁵ Environmental Microbial Genomics, UMR 5005 Laboratoire Ampère, CNRS, École Centrale de Lyon, Université de Lyon, Écully, France.
³⁶ Department of Soil Sciences, Faculty of Agriculture, Ain Shams University, Cairo 11241, Egypt.
³⁷ Applied Biology and Chemical Technology, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China.
³⁸ Environmental Microbiome Engineering and Biotechnology Laboratory, Center for Environmental Engineering Research, Department of Civil Engineering, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China.
³⁹ Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden.
⁴⁰ Key Laboratory of Geographic Information Science of the Ministry of Education, School of Geographic Sciences, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241, China.
⁴¹ Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB T6G 2E3, Canada.
⁴² Section for Microbial Ecology and Biotechnology, Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Thorvaldsensvej 40, 1871 Frederiksberg C, Denmark.
⁴³ Sino-Danish Center (SDC), Beijing, China.
⁴⁴ Food and Environmental Safety Research Group of the University of Valencia (SAMA-UV), Desertification Research Centre - CIDE (CSIC-UV-GV), Road CV-315 km 10.7, 46113 Moncada, Valencia, Spain.
⁴⁵ Australian Centre for Water and Environmental Biotechnology, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD 4072, Australia.
⁴⁶ School of Life Sciences, University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland, 4132 Muttenz, Switzerland.
⁴⁷ Centre for Environmental and Marine Studies (CESAM) & Department of Chemistry, University of Aveiro, 3810-193 Aveiro, Portugal.
⁴⁸ Jiangsu Engineering Laboratory of Water and Soil Eco-remediation, School of Environment, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing 210023, China.
⁴⁹ College of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China.
⁵⁰ Laboratory of Physical Chemistry, Materials and Molecular Modeling (LCP3M), University of Abomey-Calavi, Republic of Benin, Cotonou 01 BP 526, Benin.
⁵¹ Department of Environment and Natural Resources, Agricultural University of Tirana, 1029 Tirana, Albania.
⁵² Institute of Environmental Processes and Pollution Control, and School of Environment & Ecology, Jiangnan University, Wuxi 214122, China.
⁵³ Center for Microbial Ecology, Department of Plant, Soil, and Microbial Sciences, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA.
⁵⁴ Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA.
⁵⁵ Department of Microbiology, University of Helsinki, 00010 Helsinki, Finland.
⁵⁶ School of Biological Sciences, University of Auckland, Auckland, Aotearoa 1142, New Zealand.
⁵⁷ School of Chemical & Environmental Engineering, China University of Mining & Technology - Beijing, Beijing 100083, China.
⁵⁸ National Institute of Public Health and the Environment, Center for the Safety of Substances and Products, 3720 BA Bilthoven, The Netherlands.
⁵⁹ Leiden University, Center for Environmental Studies, Leiden, the Netherlands.
⁶⁰ Agroecology Mixed Research Unit, INRAE, 17 rue Sully, 21065 Dijon Cedex, France.
⁶¹ State Key Laboratory of Environmental Chemistry and Ecotoxicology, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100085, China.
⁶² Department of Environmental Science, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang 310058, China.
⁶³ Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China.
⁶⁴ Chemistry and Physics Department, University of Almeria, 04120 Almeria, Spain.
⁶⁵ Shanghai Key Laboratory of Atmospheric Particle Pollution and Prevention (LAP3), Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China.
⁶⁶ Stockbridge School of Agriculture, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003, USA.
⁶⁷ Institute of Crop Science and Resource Conservation (INRES), Soil Science and Soil Ecology, University of Bonn, 53115 Bonn, Germany.
⁶⁸ Agrosphere Institute (IBG-3), Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, 52428 Jülich, Germany.
⁶⁹ State Key Laboratory of Environmental and Biological Analysis, Department of Chemistry, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong, China.
⁷⁰ Global Centre for Environmental Remediation (GCER), The University of Newcastle (UON), Newcastle, NSW 2308, Australia.
⁷¹ Cooperative Research Centre for Contamination Assessment and Remediation of the Environment (CRC CARE), The University of Newcastle (UON), Newcastle, NSW 2308, Australia.
⁷² Department of Chemistry, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON N2L 3G1, Canada.
⁷³ State Key Laboratory of Urban and Regional Ecology, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100085, China.
⁷⁴ Institute for Environmental Research, RWTH Aachen University, 52074 Aachen, Germany.
⁷⁵ Institute of Biology, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
⁷⁶ Berlin-Brandenburg Institute of Advanced Biodiversity Research (BBIB), Berlin, Germany.
⁷⁷ State Key Laboratory of Environmental Criteria and Risk Assessment, Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences, Beijing 100012, China.
⁷⁸ Advanced Interdisciplinary Institute of Environment and Ecology, Beijing Normal University, Zhuhai, China.

PMID: 38756954
PMCID: PMC11096751
DOI: 10.1016/j.xinn.2024.100612

Review

Emerging contaminants: A One Health perspective

Fang Wang et al. Innovation (Camb). 2024.

. 2024 Mar 13;5(4):100612.

doi: 10.1016/j.xinn.2024.100612. eCollection 2024 Jul 1.

Authors

Affiliations

¹ State Key Laboratory of Soil and Sustainable Agriculture, Institute of Soil Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 210008, China.
² University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China.
³ Department of Chemistry, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong, China.
⁴ HKBU Institute of Research and Continuing Education, Shenzhen Virtual University Park, Shenzhen, China.
⁵ Technical University of Munich, TUM School of Natural Sciences, Institute of Hydrochemistry, 85748 Garching, Germany.
⁶ School of Resources & Environment, Northeast Agricultural University, Harbin 150030, China.
⁷ Climate, Air Quality Research Unit, School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.
⁸ Faculty of Environmental Science & Engineering, Kunming University of Science & Technology, Kunming 650500, China.
⁹ Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Pollution Processes and Environmental Criteria, College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Nankai University, Tianjin 300350, China.
¹⁰ Guangdong Key Laboratory of Environmental Catalysis and Health Risk Control, School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Institute of Environmental Health and Pollution Control, Guangdong University of Technology, Guangzhou 510006, China.
¹¹ Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Environmental Theoretical Chemistry, South China Normal University, Guangzhou, Guangdong 510006, China.
¹² Department of Environmental Science, Baylor University, Waco, TX, USA.
¹³ Center for Reservoir and Aquatic Systems Research (CRASR), Baylor University, Waco, TX, USA.
¹⁴ School of Environment, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China.
¹⁵ School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA.
¹⁶ Key Laboratory of Microbial Technology for Industrial Pollution Control of Zhejiang Province, Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou 310014, China.
¹⁷ School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China.
¹⁸ Laboratoire d'Ecologie Microbienne, Universite Claude Bernard Lyon 1, UMR CNRS 5557, UMR INRAE 1418, VetAgro Sup, 69622 Villeurbanne, France.
¹⁹ Department of Plant, Soil and Microbial Sciences, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA.
²⁰ Institute of Organic Contaminant Control and Soil Remediation, College of Resources and Environmental Sciences, Nanjing Agricultural University, Weigang Road 1, Nanjing 210095, China.
²¹ Environmental NMR Centre and Department of Physical and Environmental Sciences, University of Toronto Scarborough, 1265 Military Trail, Toronto, ON M1C 1A4, Canada.
²² State Key Laboratory of Pollution Control and Resource Reuse, School of the Environment, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, China.
²³ Department of Renewable Resources, University of Alberta, 442 Earth Sciences Building, Edmonton, AB T6G 2E3, Canada.
²⁴ Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Chemical Pollution Control and Resources Reuse, School of Environmental and Biological Engineering, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing 210094, China.
²⁵ Materials Science & Engineering Program, Department of Chemistry, and Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of California-Riverside, Riverside, CA, USA.
²⁶ Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Precision Measurement and Early Warning Technology for Urban Environmental Health Risks, School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen 518055, China.
²⁷ Key Laboratory of Urban Environment and Health, Institute of Urban Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xiamen 361021, China.
²⁸ Department of Chemistry, Memorial University of Newfoundland, 45 Arctic Avenue, St. John's, NL A1C 5S7, Canada.
²⁹ Key Laboratory of Agro-Forestry Environmental Processes and Ecological Regulation of Hainan Province, School of Ecological and Environmental Sciences, Hainan University, Haikou 570228, China.
³⁰ School of Water, Energy and Environment, Cranfield University, Cranfield MK43 0AL, UK.
³¹ Key Laboratory of Surficial Geochemistry, Ministry of Education, School of Earth Sciences and Engineering, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210023, China.
³² Institute for Ecological Research and Pollution Control of Plateau Lakes, School of Ecology and Environmental Science, Yunnan University, Kunming 650504, China.
³³ Jiangsu Provincial Key Lab for Organic Solid Waste Utilization, Jiangsu Collaborative Innovation Center for Solid Organic Waste Resource Utilization, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, China.
³⁴ Graduate School of Oceanography, University of Rhode Island, Narragansett, RI, USA.
³⁵ Environmental Microbial Genomics, UMR 5005 Laboratoire Ampère, CNRS, École Centrale de Lyon, Université de Lyon, Écully, France.
³⁶ Department of Soil Sciences, Faculty of Agriculture, Ain Shams University, Cairo 11241, Egypt.
³⁷ Applied Biology and Chemical Technology, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China.
³⁸ Environmental Microbiome Engineering and Biotechnology Laboratory, Center for Environmental Engineering Research, Department of Civil Engineering, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China.
³⁹ Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden.
⁴⁰ Key Laboratory of Geographic Information Science of the Ministry of Education, School of Geographic Sciences, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241, China.
⁴¹ Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB T6G 2E3, Canada.
⁴² Section for Microbial Ecology and Biotechnology, Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Thorvaldsensvej 40, 1871 Frederiksberg C, Denmark.
⁴³ Sino-Danish Center (SDC), Beijing, China.
⁴⁴ Food and Environmental Safety Research Group of the University of Valencia (SAMA-UV), Desertification Research Centre - CIDE (CSIC-UV-GV), Road CV-315 km 10.7, 46113 Moncada, Valencia, Spain.
⁴⁵ Australian Centre for Water and Environmental Biotechnology, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD 4072, Australia.
⁴⁶ School of Life Sciences, University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland, 4132 Muttenz, Switzerland.
⁴⁷ Centre for Environmental and Marine Studies (CESAM) & Department of Chemistry, University of Aveiro, 3810-193 Aveiro, Portugal.
⁴⁸ Jiangsu Engineering Laboratory of Water and Soil Eco-remediation, School of Environment, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing 210023, China.
⁴⁹ College of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China.
⁵⁰ Laboratory of Physical Chemistry, Materials and Molecular Modeling (LCP3M), University of Abomey-Calavi, Republic of Benin, Cotonou 01 BP 526, Benin.
⁵¹ Department of Environment and Natural Resources, Agricultural University of Tirana, 1029 Tirana, Albania.
⁵² Institute of Environmental Processes and Pollution Control, and School of Environment & Ecology, Jiangnan University, Wuxi 214122, China.
⁵³ Center for Microbial Ecology, Department of Plant, Soil, and Microbial Sciences, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA.
⁵⁴ Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA.
⁵⁵ Department of Microbiology, University of Helsinki, 00010 Helsinki, Finland.
⁵⁶ School of Biological Sciences, University of Auckland, Auckland, Aotearoa 1142, New Zealand.
⁵⁷ School of Chemical & Environmental Engineering, China University of Mining & Technology - Beijing, Beijing 100083, China.
⁵⁸ National Institute of Public Health and the Environment, Center for the Safety of Substances and Products, 3720 BA Bilthoven, The Netherlands.
⁵⁹ Leiden University, Center for Environmental Studies, Leiden, the Netherlands.
⁶⁰ Agroecology Mixed Research Unit, INRAE, 17 rue Sully, 21065 Dijon Cedex, France.
⁶¹ State Key Laboratory of Environmental Chemistry and Ecotoxicology, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100085, China.
⁶² Department of Environmental Science, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang 310058, China.
⁶³ Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China.
⁶⁴ Chemistry and Physics Department, University of Almeria, 04120 Almeria, Spain.
⁶⁵ Shanghai Key Laboratory of Atmospheric Particle Pollution and Prevention (LAP3), Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China.
⁶⁶ Stockbridge School of Agriculture, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003, USA.
⁶⁷ Institute of Crop Science and Resource Conservation (INRES), Soil Science and Soil Ecology, University of Bonn, 53115 Bonn, Germany.
⁶⁸ Agrosphere Institute (IBG-3), Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, 52428 Jülich, Germany.
⁶⁹ State Key Laboratory of Environmental and Biological Analysis, Department of Chemistry, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong, China.
⁷⁰ Global Centre for Environmental Remediation (GCER), The University of Newcastle (UON), Newcastle, NSW 2308, Australia.
⁷¹ Cooperative Research Centre for Contamination Assessment and Remediation of the Environment (CRC CARE), The University of Newcastle (UON), Newcastle, NSW 2308, Australia.
⁷² Department of Chemistry, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON N2L 3G1, Canada.
⁷³ State Key Laboratory of Urban and Regional Ecology, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100085, China.
⁷⁴ Institute for Environmental Research, RWTH Aachen University, 52074 Aachen, Germany.
⁷⁵ Institute of Biology, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
⁷⁶ Berlin-Brandenburg Institute of Advanced Biodiversity Research (BBIB), Berlin, Germany.
⁷⁷ State Key Laboratory of Environmental Criteria and Risk Assessment, Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences, Beijing 100012, China.
⁷⁸ Advanced Interdisciplinary Institute of Environment and Ecology, Beijing Normal University, Zhuhai, China.

PMID: 38756954
PMCID: PMC11096751
DOI: 10.1016/j.xinn.2024.100612

Abstract

Environmental pollution is escalating due to rapid global development that often prioritizes human needs over planetary health. Despite global efforts to mitigate legacy pollutants, the continuous introduction of new substances remains a major threat to both people and the planet. In response, global initiatives are focusing on risk assessment and regulation of emerging contaminants, as demonstrated by the ongoing efforts to establish the UN's Intergovernmental Science-Policy Panel on Chemicals, Waste, and Pollution Prevention. This review identifies the sources and impacts of emerging contaminants on planetary health, emphasizing the importance of adopting a One Health approach. Strategies for monitoring and addressing these pollutants are discussed, underscoring the need for robust and socially equitable environmental policies at both regional and international levels. Urgent actions are needed to transition toward sustainable pollution management practices to safeguard our planet for future generations.

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Figures

**Figure 1**
The evolution of ECs in relation to the advances in the detection and tracking of potentially toxic chemicals in the environment or biological systems, even at trace levels Since the early 2000s, the term ECs has been used to describe the discovery of new pollutant classes. Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), and plastics exemplify problematic substances that were in use for decades (gray bars) but emerged as contaminants (pins) and were regulated and discontinued (faded-out shadow) with different lag times. Arrows in the lower panel indicate ECs that originated as replacements for other pollutants.

**Figure 2**
Schematic illustration of the multifaceted pathways of EC production, utilization, and environmental release Sectors such as industries, agriculture, households, hospitals, and wastewater treatment plants all contribute to the distribution of these contaminants. From industrial processes to agricultural practices and everyday household activities to medical and treatment facilities to effluent discharges, these sources collectively disseminate ECs into the environment.

**Figure 3**
Pathways through which ECs enter the environment and their subsequent fate ECs can originate from various sources, such as industrial discharges, agricultural runoff, and wastewater effluents. Once released, ECs can undergo transformation processes such as degradation, volatilization, and bioaccumulation, influencing their distribution across different environmental compartments, including water bodies, soils, and the atmosphere.

**Figure 4**
Interconnected negative impacts of ECs on human health, air quality, water systems, and soil ecosystems

**Figure 5**
Strategies for controlling ECs encompass various measures, including pollution control at the source, sustainable remediation to clean up contaminated sites, and sustainable management practices to prevent contamination

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