Title: Symposium--Impacts of Soil and Water Pollution on Food Safety
Lead Community Sponsor:
Cosponsor: SSSA Division: Soil Chemistry
Community Cosponsor:
Format: Oral Symposium
Keywords: food safety, human health and soil pollution
Session Description: There is a strong link between environmental pollution and food safety. This session will emphasize the impacts of soil and water contamination by trace elements, pesticides, organic contaminants, nanoparticles, and chemicals of emerging concern to food safety, use of soil amendments to ameliorate soil quality for agricultural production, and appropriate irrigation with reclaimed water in agricultural lands.