Human health concerns regarding microplastics in the aquatic environment - From marine to food systems

Marine plastic waste pollution is one of the most urgent global marine environmental problems worldwide. It has attracted worldwide attention from governments, the public, the scientific community, media and non-governmental organizations and has become a hot issue in current marine ecology and envi...

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Published in:The Science of the total environment 2022-06, Vol.823, p.153730-153730, Article 153730
Main Authors: Yuan, Zhihao, Nag, Rajat, Cummins, Enda
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Food safety
Human health risk
Plastic pollution
Risk assessment
Seafood
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Summary:Marine plastic waste pollution is one of the most urgent global marine environmental problems worldwide. It has attracted worldwide attention from governments, the public, the scientific community, media and non-governmental organizations and has become a hot issue in current marine ecology and environmental research. This research aimed to conduct a traditional review of the current state of the art regarding microplastics (MPs) definition and characterisation, including an assessment of MPs detected in marine and food systems. The review revealed that plastic waste is not biodegraded and can only be broken down, predominantly by physical processes, into small particles of micron to nanometre size. Particles (
ISSN:0048-9697
1879-1026
DOI:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.153730