Probiotics as Chemical Decontamination Candidates

Industrial pollutants have unavoidably increased the incidences of human exposure to organic and inorganic pollutants. The contaminants enter into foods accidently during production, manufacturing, processing, and packaging. Organic pollutants, nonessential heavy metals, mycotoxins, and many allergens, collectively called as xenobiotics, pose serious health threats such as toxicity, oxidative stress, inflammation, allergy, cancer, and perturbation of human microbiota. Among physical and chemical methods of bioremediation or reducing toxicity, the detoxification by using probiotics is germane and cost-effective.