Editor in Chief



Aristidis M. Tsatsakis, PhD, ERT, DSc, FATS, DHonC, HonProf, FMRAS, FMWAS
Laboratory of Toxicology and Forensic Sciences, University of Crete, Greece
Professor Tsatsakis is the Director of the Department of Toxicology and Forensic Sciences of the Medical School at the University of Crete and the University Hospital of Heraklion. He was EUROTOX President-Elect in 2012, and served as President (2014–2016) of the Federation of European Toxicologists and European Societies of Toxicology (EUROTOX), was “Highly Cited Researcher” for the years 2020 and 2021, in the field of Pharmacology – Toxicology by Clarivate Analytics (Web of Science) and has over 1,000 publications, 37,000 citations and a current IF index of 88 (GS) and 71 (Web of Science). Recently, he was honored with the EUROTOX Merit Award 2022 for his significant contribution to the advancement of the field of Toxicology in Europe and worldwide.

Emeritus Editor



Jose L. Domingo, PhD Universitat Rovira i Virgili, School of Medicine, Sant Llorens 21, 43201 Reus, Spain
Jose L. Domingo was born in Tortosa, Catalonia, in 1951. He obtained his PhD in Toxicology at the Universitat de Barcelona in 1982. He became Full Professor of Toxicology at the University of Barcelona in 1991, and at the Universitat “Rovira i Virgili” (Tarragona/Reus), School of Medicine, in 1993. He is currently Emeritus Professor of Toxicology and Environmental Health at the same Center and University. Prof. Jose L. Domingo was Associate Visiting Professor at the School of Hygiene and Public Health, The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, MD, USA; 1987) and spent short sabbatical periods at Vanderbilt University (Nashville, TN, USA), the University of Arizona (Tucson, AZ, USA), and the University of California at Davis (USA). In 2006, he was appointed Distinguished Professor by the Universitat “Rovira i Virgili”. His research has been mainly focused on human health risk assessment of a number of environmental pollutants, including emerging contaminants. Risk of food contaminants is another important issue of his interest.
Prof. Jose L. Domingo is founder and director of the Laboratory of Toxicology and Environmental Health and Tecnatox . He is author or co-author of 737 papers (Scopus) published in international peer-reviewed journals. According to Google Scholar, these papers mean over 38,000 citations with a current h-index of 97. He has managed an important number of projects for public administrations and private companies. He has directed more than 40 PhD theses, is a Highly Cited Researcher and he was also recognized as an Expertscape World Expert in Food Safety. Prof. Jose L. Domingo belongs to various international scientific societies such as the Society of Toxicology USA, EUROTOX etc.

Managing Editor

Alexander Vardavas, MSc, PhD, ERT Laboratory of Toxicology and Forensic Sciences, University of Crete, Greece

Associate Editors
Toxicology in Global Burden of Diseases
Félix Carvalho EUROTOX PRESIDENT. Laboratory of Toxicology, Department of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Porto, Portugal
Metabolomics in Public Health
Dimitrios Tsoukalas Health Clinics for Autoimmune and Chronic Diseases, Greece
Modern Tools and Concepts for Risk Assessment in Public Health
Philip Wexler National Library of Medicine (NLM-2020), Toxicology Informatics, United States
Emerging Ecotoxicology Problems in Public Health
Olga-Ioanna Kalantzi Department of Environment, University of the Aegean, Greece
Toxicology of Biomaterials and Nanomaterials in Public Health
Antonios K. Stratidakis University School for Advanced Studies (IUSS), Science, Technology and Society Department, Environmental Health Engineering, Italy
Legislative-Regulatory Toxicology and Public Health
Tommaso Filippini Department of Biomedical, Metabolic and Neural Sciences, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy
Occupational Medicine and Toxicology
Concettina Fenga Department Biomedical and Dental Sciences and Morphofunctional Imaging, Occupational Medicine Section, University of Messina, Italy
Genomics-Pharmacogenomics in Public Health
Nikolaos Drakoulis Division of Pharmaceutical Technologies, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece
Food Toxicology and Epidemiology
Carlos Augusto Fernandes de Oliveira Department of Food Engineering, School of Animal Science and Food Engineering, University of São Paulo, Brazil
Social Health and Drug Dependencies
Ramin Rezaee Clinical Research Unit, Faculty of Medicine, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Iran
Nutrition and Public Health
Robin Mesnage Gene Expression and Therapy Group, Department of Medical and Molecular Genetics, Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine, Guy’s Hospital, King’s College London, United Kingdom
Forensic Medicine and Toxicology
Jesús Agudo Ordóñez National Institute of Toxicology and Forensic Sciences, Spanish Antipoison Center, Spain
Environmental Health and Toxicology
David R. Wallace Pharmacology & Toxicology Department, Center for Health Sciences, Olkahoma State University, United States
Metals and Functional Elements
Alexey A. Tinkov Laboratory of Ecobiomonitoring and Quality Control, Yaroslavl State University, Yaroslavl, Russia
Public health modulators of Cancer development and Ageing progression
Taxiarchis-Konstantinos Nikolouzakis Department of Anatomy & Laboratory of Toxicology, Medical School, University of Crete, Greece
Biomonitoring and Analytical Toxicology
Andreas Tsakalof Laboratory of Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine, University of Thessaly, 41500 Biopolis, Larissa, Greece
Risk Assessment in Public Health
Anca Oana Docea Department of Clinical Pharmacy, University of Medicine and Pharmacy of Craiova, Romania



Editorial Board
Abel-Santamaría del Ángel Laboratorio de Aminóacidos Excitadores, Instituto Nacional de Neurología y Neurocirugía “Manuel Velasco Súarez”, Mexico
Arturo Anadón Complutense University of Madrid, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Madrid, Spain
Arnab Banerjee Department of Physiology, Serampore College, Serampore, India
Aleksandra Buha Đorđević Department of Toxicology, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Belgrade, Serbia
Anca Oana Docea Department of Clinical Pharmacy, University of Medicine and Pharmacy of Craiova, Romania
Akinobu Ota Department of Biochemistry, Aichi Medical University School of Medicine, Japan
Alexey A. Tinkov Laboratory of Ecobiomonitoring and Quality Control, Yaroslavl State University, Yaroslavl, Russia
Andreas Tsakalof Laboratory of Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine, University of Thessaly, 41500 Biopolis, Larissa, Greece
Antonios K. Stratidakis University School for Advanced Studies (IUSS), Science, Technology and Society Department, Environmental Health Engineering, Italy
Atilla Engin Department of General Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Gazi University, Turkey
Concettina Fenga Department Biomedical and Dental Sciences and Morphofunctional Imaging, Occupational Medicine Section, University of Messina, Italy
Carlos Augusto Fernandes de Oliveira Department of Food Engineering, School of Animal Science and Food Engineering, University of São Paulo, Brazil
Christina Tsitsimpikou General Chemical State Laboratory of Greece, Greece
Daniela Calina Department of Clinical Pharmacy, University of Medicine and Pharmacy of Craiova, Romania
David Lozano-Paniagua Department of Nursing, Physiotherapy and Medicine, University of Almeria, Spain
David R. Wallace Pharmacology & Toxicology Department, Center for Health Sciences, Olkahoma State University, United States
Daniela Baconi Department of Toxicology, Faculty of Pharmacy, Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Romania
Eşref Demir Department of Medical Services and Techniques, Medical Laboratory Techniques Programme, Vocational School of Health Services, Antalya Bilim University, Turkey
Evgenios Agathokleous Department of Ecology, School of Applied Meteorology, Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology, Nanjing, China
Eren Ozcagli Department of Pharmaceutical Toxicology, Faculty of Pharmacy, Istanbul University, Turkey
Félix Carvalho Laboratory of Toxicology, Department of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Porto, Portugal
Ioannis N. Tsakiris Laboratory of Quality Control, Agriculture Department, School of Agriculture, University of Western Macedonia - Florina branch, Greece
Jesús Agudo Ordóñez National Institute of Toxicology and Forensic Sciences, Spanish Antipoison Center, Spain
Jyrki Liesivuori Department of Pharmacology, Drug Development and Therapeutics, Institute of Biomedicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Turku, Finland
João Paulo Teixeira Portuguese Society of Toxicology, Portugal
Kirill Sergeyevich Golokhvast Scientific Education Center of Nanotechnology, Far Eastern Federal University, Russia
Khalidya Khamidulina Russian Register of Potentially Hazardous Chemical and Biological Substances - Branch of F.F. Erisman Federal Scientific Hygiene Center, Federal Service for Surveillance on Consumer Rights Protection and Human Well-being, Russia
Leda K. Kovatsi Laboratory of Forensic Medicine & Toxicology, School of Medicine, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Maria Caterina Grassi Department Physiology and Pharmacology "Vittorio Erspamer", Sapienza University, Italy
Marios Spanakis Computational Biomedicine Lab, Institute of Computer Science, Foundation for Research & Technology Hellas (FORTH), Greece
Miguel A. Sogorb Miguel Hernandez University of Elche, Institute of Bioengineering, Alicante, Spain
Nikolaos Drakoulis Division of Pharmaceutical Technologies, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece
Okunola A. Alabi Department of Biology, Federal University of Technology, Nigeria
Olga-Ioanna Kalantzi Department of Environment, University of the Aegean, Greece
Polychronis D. Stivaktakis Laboratory of Toxicology and Forensic Sciences, University of Crete, Greece
Philip Wexler National Library of Medicine (NLM-2020), Toxicology Informatics, United States
Robin Mesnage Gene Expression and Therapy Group, Department of Medical and Molecular Genetics, Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine, Guy’s Hospital, King’s College London, United Kingdom
Ramin Rezaee Clinical Research Unit, Faculty of Medicine, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Iran
Tommaso Filippini Department of Biomedical, Metabolic and Neural Sciences, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy
Thomas Hartung Center for Alternatives to Animal Testing, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, United States
Taxiarchis-Konstantinos Nikolouzakis Department of Anatomy & Laboratory of Toxicology, Medical School, University of Crete, Greece
Yong Jie Wong Research Center for Environmental Quality Management, Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University, Japan
Željka Babić Institute for Medical Research and Occupational Health, Croatia

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