Food Additives & Contaminants Part B-Surveillance

Food Additives & Contaminants Part B-Surveillance is published by Taylor and Francis Ltd. and is in Zone 3 of Agricultural & Forestry Sciences in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Mycotoxins in Agriculture and Food, Heavy metals in environment and Pesticide Residue Analysis and Safety, together about 33.5% of its articles. Its main subfields are Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

Food Additives & Contaminants: Part B is a subscription-based, peer-reviewed journal that publishes surveillance data indicating the presence and levels of occurrence of designated food additives, residues, and contaminants in foods, food supplements, and animal feed. Data using validated methods must meet stipulated quality standards to be acceptable and must be presented in a prescribed format for subsequent data handling. Food Additives & Contaminants: Part B restricts its scope to include certain classes of food additives, residues, and contaminants. This is based on the goal of covering those areas where there is a need to record surveillance data for the purposes of exposure and risk assessment. The scope is initially restricted to: Additives - food colors, artificial sweeteners, and preservatives; Residues – veterinary drug and pesticide residues; Contaminants – metals, mycotoxins, phycotoxins, plant toxins, nitrate/nitrite, PCDDs/PCFDs, PCBs, PAHs, acrylamide, 3-MPCD and contaminants derived from food packaging. Readership: The readership includes scientists involved in all aspects of food safety and quality particularly those involved in monitoring human exposure to chemicals from the diet. Papers reporting surveillance data in areas other than the above should be submitted to Part A . The scope of Part B will be expanded from time to time to ensure the inclusion of new areas of concern. Peer Review Statement The journal welcomes for consideration the following article type: original articles. All articles received by the Journal are subject to initial appraisal by the Editor-in-Chief, and, if found suitable for further consideration, to peer review by independent, anonymous expert referees. All peer review is single anonymized and submission is online via ScholarOne Manuscripts. Read the Instructions for Authors for information on how to submit your article.

From the journal's Aims & Scope

Research area (LetPub): Toxicology

Editor-in-chief M.C. SPANJERPublisher website

Editorial board by country: 1 in mainland China (about 7%); most named Italy 3, United Kingdom 2, Switzerland 2, Mainland China 1, United States 1 (14 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website · 2026-10-01

CAS Journal Ranking

JCR / CiteScore quartiles on the journal's website

• JCR Q2 · best quartile · 2025
• CiteScore Q2 · 2025

Publisher-reported: JCR figures are Clarivate's and CiteScore figures Scopus's to confirm; both are a different system from the CAS zones.Publisher website

Database indexing

SCIEScopusLetPub

International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub

Indexing the journal's website claims

Web of ScienceMEDLINEPubMedEmbaseCASPublisher website

Other: ProQuest, OCLC, BIOSIS, Cambridge Scientific Abstracts, Current Awareness in Biological Services (CABS), Environmental Abstracts, Environmental Periodical Bibliography, Research Alert, SIIC DataBases Uncover and Index

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Editions, and major and minor categories, are shown separately and never merged into one zone; check which edition your institution uses before you submit or report.

Impact

Impact factor

2.57LetPub · 2026-09-13

Impact factor (publisher) 2025

2.6Publisher website · 2026-10-01

5-year impact factor (publisher) 2025

2.4Publisher website · 2026-10-01

CiteScore 2026-06

4.5LetPub · 2026-09-13

CiteScore (publisher) 2025

4.5Publisher website · 2026-10-01

SJR 2026-06

0.52LetPub · 2026-09-13

SJR (publisher) 2025

0.52Publisher website · 2026-10-01

SNIP 2026-06

0.78LetPub · 2026-09-13

SNIP (publisher) 2025

0.78Publisher website · 2026-10-01

h-index

21LetPub · 2026-09-13

h-index

52OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

i10-index

526OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

2-year mean citedness

3.19OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

Self-citation rate

23.1%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Share of gold OA articles

0%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Volume

Articles per year

37LetPub · 2026-09-13

Downloads per year (publisher)

35,000Publisher website · 2026-10-01

Sources count differently and were observed at different times, so each source's own value is kept; "publisher" marks figures from the journal's website.

Other sources

Average review time (community reports)

over 36 weeksLetPub · 2026-09-13

Average acceptance (community reports)

EasyLetPub · 2026-09-13

Acceptance rate (publisher)

31%Publisher website · 2026-10-01

Submission to first decision

25 daysPublisher website · 2026-10-01

Acceptance to publication

23 daysPublisher website · 2026-10-01

Submission to publication

25 daysPublisher website · 2026-10-01

Peer review

Single anonymous peer reviewPublisher website

Community reports come from authors' own submissions (confidence 0.5) and are not a promise from the journal; for publisher figures, the journal's own definitions apply.

The journal's website is authoritative for fees; sources were observed at different times and each keeps its own value, without averaging.

Excerpts are quoted from the journal's website; "model summary" lines are written by Workers AI and checked against the text. The journal's website is authoritative.

Publisher

Taylor and Francis Ltd.

Country or region

ENGLAND

Language

English

Founded

2008

ISSN

1939-3210

Electronic ISSN

1939-3229

Latest issue on the website

Volume 19, Issue 3 (2026)

Official links

• Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
• Submission system ↗Publisher website
• Special issues ↗Publisher website