Aims & Scope

Aims:

The International Journal of Food Safety and Contaminants (IJFSC) aims to provide an international forum for high-quality research, reviews, and critical perspectives on food safety, with a particular focus on the occurrence, detection, and impact of environmental, process-related, packaging-derived, and emerging contaminants in foods. The journal promotes interdisciplinary dialogue between scientists, regulators, and stakeholders to safeguard consumer health and strengthen evidence-based food safety policies across the global food chain. It is published quarterly online by Scilight Press.

Scope:

The journal publishes contributions including, but not limited to:

  • Environmental contaminants: heavy metals, metalloids, pesticides, veterinary drug residues, persistent organic pollutants (POPs), pharmaceuticals, and other pollutants entering the food chain through environmental pathways.
  • Process-related contaminants: acrylamide, furans, chloropropanols, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), advanced glycation end-products, and compounds formed or transferred during cooking, processing, packaging, or storage.
  • Packaging-derived contaminants: migration of substances from food contact materials, additives, printing inks, recycled materials, nanomaterials, and other components associated with innovative or traditional packaging.
  • Emerging contaminants: novel chemical residues, endocrine-disrupting compounds, contaminants from innovative processing or packaging technologies, and newly identified pollutants detected through advanced analytical approaches.
  • Biological contaminants: pathogenic microorganisms, antimicrobial resistance, viruses, and parasites relevant to food safety.
  • Analytical methods: development, validation, and application of state-of-the-art techniques for detection and monitoring of known and emerging contaminants.
  • Risk assessment and management: exposure assessment, toxicological evaluation, mitigation strategies, predictive modelling, and control measures.

The journal welcomes original research articles, reviews, short communications, case studies, and etc., encouraging multidisciplinary perspectives from food science, toxicology, analytical chemistry, microbiology, regulatory science, and public health.