Gabriel Mustatea

National R&D Institute for Food Bioresources, Romania

Gabriel Mustățea is a Scientific researcher and head of the Food packaging Laboratory within the National R&D Institute for Food Bioresources – IBA Bucharest, Romania. He received a B.Sc. degree and an M.Sc. degree in Food Chemistry from the University POLITEHNICA of Bucharest, Faculty of Applied Chemistry and Materials Science (currently named Faculty of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnologies). In 2014, he received a Ph.D. degree in Chemical Engineering at the same university. His interests are related to food packaging and food contact materials, food safety and food security, food technology, analysis of contaminants, circular economy, and food waste. He published more than 50 papers (more than 20 WoS), 1 book chapter, and several books and brochures in Romanian. He was involved as a project responsible or team member in more than 50 research projects (more than 10 at the international level).

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Toxicity of Heavy Metals

By Elena Loredana Ungureanu and Gabriel Mustatea

Heavy metals are elements who exist naturally in the environment, but rapid urbanization and industrialization led to increased levels of these metals. These metals can reach the human body through food, water or air, where they have the property to accumulate in various tissues and organs for long periods of time and to produce serious effects on certain organs and the proper functioning of the body. Studies have also shown that heavy metals can have important effects, including on plants or animals. Their toxicity is dependent on factors such as dose, route of exposure, time of exposure, level of concentration, as well as age, gender, genetics, and nutritional status of exposed individuals. There is a growing interest from researchers to detect various physical, physical-chemical or microbiological methods to reduce or eliminate the presence of these metals, especially from surface or wastewater, which are mainly responsible for food contamination. This chapter present the main characteristics of heavy metals, the sources of contamination of exposure, as well as their toxicity on some environmental segments and especially on living organisms.

Part of the book: Environmental Impact and Remediation of Heavy Metals

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