Radionuclide Uptake In Food And Consequences For Humans: 2 (World Scientific Series On Advances In Environmental Pollution Management)

This book provides a comprehensive review on how radionuclides occur in the environment; how radionuclides are distributed in soil; how the migration of radionuclides in plants occurs; and their consequences on human health. It explains how the speciation of radionuclide interferes in the uptake and accumulation processes in fruits, and includes case studies as well as reviews of modern and state-of-the-art technology related to radioactive material uptake in plants. This volume is a useful reference to researchers in the field of radionuclide contamination in foods and will also be helpful for graduate and undergraduate students specializing in radioactive waste disposal and its toxicity effects in food products and their consequences on humans.

Dr Dharmendra Kumar Gupta is Director(S)/Scientist-F at India's Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, New Delhi. His field of research includes abiotic stress by radionuclides/heavy metals and xenobiotics in plants; antioxidative system in plants, environmental pollution (radionuclides/heavy metals) remediation through plants and microbes (phytoremediation/Bioremediation). He has been awarded several international awards by entities such as the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), the Belgian Science Policy Office (BELSPO), JAE-Doc., Spain, TWAS-CNPq, Italy, Royal Society, UK, and MASAV, Israel. Dr Gupta has published more than 130 internationally peer-reviewed original research/review articles/book chapters and 26 books and served as Book Series Editor for 2 book series from Springer, Switzerland and 1 from World Scientific, Singapore. He has successfully completed 10 multidisciplinary research projects from international and national bodies.

Prof. Clemens Waltheris a Professor at the Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany and Head of the Institute of Radioecology and Radiation Protection. He has been Chair of the Nuclear Chemistry Section of the German Chemical Society, and is Head of the German Steering Board of the Competence Center Radiation Research (KVSF) since 2017. He has also been a member of the German Commission for Radiation Protection since 2015, and vice president of the German Swiss Society for Radiation Protection since 2023. Prof. Walther's past appointments include being Dean of the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics (2019–2021), Head of the European Network on Nuclear and Radiochemistry Education and Training (2016–2022), Member of the extended governing board of the German Society for Mass Spectrometry (DGMS) (2012–2015) and Head of the mass spectrometry division of the German Physical Society (DPG) (2012–2015). Prof. Walther has published more than 175 International manuscripts and review articles in international and reputed journals and edited eight books.