Acute Toxicity, Environmental Impact Assessment and Human Safety of Surfactants

Dear Colleagues,

Evaluating the acute toxicity and environmental repercussions of surfactants is paramount, in particular due to their extensive application across diverse industries, encompassing household cleaning products, personal care items, agriculture, and industrial processes. Surfactants infiltrate the environment via multiple pathways, including wastewater discharge, runoff from agricultural fields, and inadvertent spills.

This Special Issue of Toxics aims to feature full-length articles, reviews, and communications addressing novel research on this topic from a multidisciplinary point of view, including (but not limited to) the following topics:

1. Detergents and personal care products;
2. Surfactants;
3. Acute toxicity testing;
4. Industrial chemicals;
5. Environmental fate and transport;
6. Environmental monitoring;
7. Risk assessment and mitigation;
8. Safety of use of detergents and personal care products;
9. Human safety of surfactants.

Dr. Manuela Lechuga
Dr. Francisco Ríos
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

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Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Toxics is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2600 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

• aquatic toxicity
• ecotoxicological risk
• environmental assessment
• surfactants
• risk assessment
• human safety