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Development of Modern Tools for Environmental Monitoring of
Pathogens and Toxicant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185
Shalini Purwar and Shaili Srivastava
10 Interactions of Environmental Risk Factors and Genetic
Variations: Association with Susceptibility to Cancer . . . . . . . . . . . 211
Munindra Ruwali and Rahul Shukla
11 Sequestration of Carbon Dioxide by Microorganism and
Production of Value Added Product . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235
Randhir K. Bharti, Shaili Srivastava, and I. S. Thakur
12 Environmental Interaction and Impact on the Life Span of Stem
Cells . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251
Anil Kumar, Krishan Gopal Jain, and Vivek Arora
13 Pharmaceuticals: An Emerging Problem of Environment
and Its Removal Through Biodegradation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267
Kritika Sharma and Garima Kaushik
14 Metabolism of Dioxins and Dioxins-Like Compound,
Its Regulation and Toxicological Pathways . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293
Prashant Kumar Jaiswal and Jyotsana Gupta
15 Film Based Packaging for Food Safety and Preservation:
Issues and Perspectives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309
Bishwambhar Mishra, Sunita Varjani, Monali Parida,
Gayathri Priya Iragavarapu, Mukesh Kumar Awasthi,
Sanjeev Kumar Awasthi, and Zengqiang Zhang
16 Biotransformation: Basics and Applied Perspectives . . . . . . . . . . . . 337
M. H. Yashavarddhan, Sania Bajaj, Sandeep Kumar Shukla,
and Arpana Vibhuti
Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 359
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