Abstract
The impact of food on human health is an incentive for the scientific community to pay attention to the sources, and human risk of chiral pharmaceuticals in food, as well as to define and set the future challenges. It is already discussed that the main sources of chiral pharmaceuticals are from industrial processes, such as the discharge of raw or insufficiently treated wastewaters containing chiral pharmaceuticals, incorrect storage and use, animal waste, and bio-solids. Human risk is entailed by exposure to such chiral pharmaceuticals via food chain and drinking water, apart from disease treatment process, skin contact, and inhalation. The prospect of the current chapter was to shed light on the state-of-the-art of the sources, human risk, and future challenges of chiral pharmaceuticals in foodstuffs, presenting data derived from the period 2015-2020. The main sources of chiral pharmaceuticals are discussed, together with the potential human risk, while the importance of studying such contaminants in food is highlighted in future challenges.
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