Retraction notice to “Monitoring the presence and persistence of SARS-CoV-2 in water-food-environmental compartments: State of the knowledge and research needs” [Environ. Res. 200 (2021) 111373] (Environmental Research (2021) 200, (S0013935121006678), (10.1016/j.envres.2021.111373))

This article has been retracted: please see Elsevier policy on article withdrawal (https://www.elsevier.com/about/policies-and-standards/article-withdrawal). This article has been retracted at the request of the Editor. An unauthorised authorship change was made when the revised version of this paper was submitted, following suggestions for relatively minor revisions from the reviewers and Guest Editor, with authors Afzal Husain Khan, Marina M.S. Cabral-Pinto, Quadri Noorulhasan Naveed and Saiful Islam being added to the paper. No satisfactory explanation was given for this change when the revised version was submitted, nor was it approved by the editor. Upon being requested to provide an explanation post-publication, author Bashir Adelodun responded but did not clarify the exact roles of each author, and only provided a general statement “These new authors were included due to their substantial contributions to the abstract, methodological section, section on the presence and persistence of SARS-CoV-2 in water-food-environmental compartments (including Table 1: “Detection and isolation of infectious SARS-CoV-2 from environmental samples”), and the conclusion section.” This authorship change breaches the policies of the journal and as a result, the editors no longer have confidence in this paper and are retracting it. The journal apologises for not having identified the problematic authorship change during the review process and for any resulting inconvenience. The authors disagree with the retraction and dispute the grounds for it.