ABSTRACT
Food security is a highpriority issue for sustainable global development for both quantitative and qualitative parameters. The increases in production and application of nanomaterials leading to their release into the environment raises concern for human health through the food chain. Theterrestrial environment, especially soil, is expected to be the largest repository for environmentally released nanomaterials and could accumulate in edible plant tissues. Hence, the precise determination of nanomaterials, which are released environmentally, is very important to assess the real-time circumstances of toxicity along with the threats to human beings. Thousands of nanoproducts, including nanofertilizers/pesticides, are commercialized, but the concentration used,and types of nanomaterials, have not been mentioned by many of them. Therefore, the series of safety assessments and toxicological menace standards should be formulated before the indiscriminate and unlimited application of nanomaterials.
