A review on the effects of microplastics on environmental sustainability, food production and food safety was discussed.

This article reports on the targeted control (23/483) for residues of polychlorinated biphenyls in chicken eggs, poultry meat, muscles of ostriches, in raw cow's milk and in the muscle of game animals which was announced by the State Veterinary and Food Administration of the Slovak Republic on the...

Microbial resistance is the ability of a microorganism to resist the action of one or more antimicrobial substances that inhibit or stop the growth of an organism, in this article the mechanisms behind resistance to antimicrobials of certain bacteria are discussed.

The Zemplin region in the eastern Slovakia is the area with one of the highest level of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) pollution worldwide. As enormous amounts of PCBs are still present in water organisms and sediments in Zemplínska Šírava water reservoir, these pollutants circulate in food...

Pollution of the environment by the faeces of dogs and cats increases the risk of the spread of endoparasite germs, which can survive in the ecosystems for a long time. Therefore, correct and timely diagnosis of zoonotic agents by appropriate diagnostic methods is very important. The risk of the...

The paper presents the results of the evaluation of the environmental potential of soils in the area affected by the long-term mining activity. The environmental potential index consists of a numerical expression of the ability to provide water storage, immobilization of risk elements, and...

With the development of anthropogenic activities, heavy metal influence of soil agroenvironment occurs, which consequently reflects on the health of organisms. In terms of the possible effects of natural/anthropogenic agroenvironment on the health of organisms, it is necessary to remember that...

The combined action of stress factors including the effect of air pollution due ground-level ozone (O³) affects mountain vegetation in the High Tatra Mts. In this paper, we present the results of an experiment aimed at testing the sensitivity of mountain pine species (Pinus mugo Turra and Pinus...

In this work, we focused on the evaluation of the tolerance of six cultivars of sunflower (Helianthus annuus cvs. P64HE144, P64LE136, P64HE118, P64HE133, P62LE122 and P63LE25) to Cd2+ ions (100 mg/kg soil). After cultivating the cultivars in contaminated soil for 62 days, we evaluated the growth...

Immission situation, compared to the maximum concentrations, has radically changed during the last quarter of the century. Decrement of pollutant production of general type of SO₂ (sulphur dioxide) and the solid pollutants (dust, ash) leaded to the decrement of their concentrations under their...