Microplastics and Nanoplastics: Emerging Contaminants in Food

Microplastics in the marine environment: a review of the methods used for identification and quantification

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Plastic and Human Health: A Micro Issue?

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Transport and release of chemicals from plastics to the environment and to wildlife

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Environmental exposure to microplastics: An overview on possible human health effects

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Microplastics: Finding a consensus on the definition

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Microplastics Can Change Soil Properties and Affect Plant Performance

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Microplastics in wastewater treatment plants: Detection, occurrence and removal

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Current opinion: What is a nanoplastic?

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Transport and fate of microplastic particles in wastewater treatment plants

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Microplastics and human health

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Effective uptake of submicrometre plastics by crop plants via a crack-entry mode

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Tissue accumulation of microplastics in mice and biomarker responses suggest widespread health risks of exposure

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Analysis of microplastics in water by micro-Raman spectroscopy: Release of plastic particles from different packaging into mineral water

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A new analytical approach for monitoring microplastics in marine sediments

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Wastewater treatment plants as a pathway for microplastics: Development of a new approach to sample wastewater-based microplastics

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Microplastics as vector for heavy metal contamination from the marine environment

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Methods for sampling and detection of microplastics in water and sediment: A critical review

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Anthropogenic contamination of tap water, beer, and sea salt

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Macro- and micro- plastics in soil-plant system: Effects of plastic mulch film residues on wheat (Triticum aestivum) growth

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Occurrence of microplastics in raw and treated drinking water

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Estimation of the mass of microplastics ingested – A pivotal first step towards human health risk assessment

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Microplastic Pollution in Table Salts from China

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Plastic Teabags Release Billions of Microparticles and Nanoparticles into Tea

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Synthetic Polymer Contamination in Bottled Water

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Impact of Microplastics and Nanoplastics on Human Health

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A rapid-screening approach to detect and quantify microplastics based on fluorescent tagging with Nile Red

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Microplastics in soils: Analytical methods, pollution characteristics and ecological risks

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Small-sized microplastics and pigmented particles in bottled mineral water

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Low numbers of microplastics detected in drinking water from ground water sources

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Ecotoxicity and genotoxicity of polystyrene microplastics on higher plant Vicia faba

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Phthalates and human health

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Microplastics accumulate on pores in seed capsule and delay germination and root growth of the terrestrial vascular plant Lepidium sativum

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Microplastics in soil: A review on methods, occurrence, sources, and potential risk

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Plastics and Health Risks

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Micro- and nano-plastics in edible fruit and vegetables. The first diet risks assessment for the general population

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Phthalates and other additives in plastics: human exposure and associated health outcomes

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The plastic brain: neurotoxicity of micro- and nanoplastics

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Mini-review of microplastics in the atmosphere and their risks to humans

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A high-performance protocol for extraction of microplastics in fish

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Surgical face masks as a potential source for microplastic pollution in the COVID-19 scenario

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Interactions of microplastics and cadmium on plant growth and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal communities in an agricultural soil

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Recent advances in toxicological research of nanoplastics in the environment: A review

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An assessment of the toxicity of polypropylene microplastics in human derived cells

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Internalization and toxicity: A preliminary study of effects of nanoplastic particles on human lung epithelial cell

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Environmental fate, toxicity and risk management strategies of nanoplastics in the environment: Current status and future perspectives

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Non-pollen particulates in honey and sugar

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Microplastics and seafood: lower trophic organisms at highest risk of contamination

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Microplastic release from the degradation of polypropylene feeding bottles during infant formula preparation

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A critical perspective on early communications concerning human health aspects of microplastics

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Synthetic particles as contaminants in German beers

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Validation of density separation for the rapid recovery of microplastics from sediment

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Size-dependent effects of polystyrene microplastics on cytotoxicity and efflux pump inhibition in human Caco-2 cells

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You are what you eat: Microplastics in the feces of young men living in Beijing

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Branded milks – Are they immune from microplastics contamination?

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Analysis of polyethylene microplastics in environmental samples, using a thermal decomposition method

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First study of its kind on the microplastic contamination of soft drinks, cold tea and energy drinks - Future research and environmental considerations

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Microplastics in take-out food containers

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Occurrence and identification of microplastics in tap water from China

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A comparative review of microplastics and nanoplastics: Toxicity hazards on digestive, reproductive and nervous system

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Exposure to microplastics (<10 μm) associated to plastic bottles mineral water consumption: The first quantitative study

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Microplastics in Spanish Table Salt

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Global Pattern of Microplastics (MPs) in Commercial Food-Grade Salts: Sea Salt as an Indicator of Seawater MP Pollution

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Comparison of different methods for MP detection: What can we learn from them, and why asking the right question before measurements matters?

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Physiological responses of garden cress (L. sativum) to different types of microplastics

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A novel, density-independent and FTIR-compatible approach for the rapid extraction of microplastics from aquatic sediments

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Microplastic and mesoplastic contamination in canned sardines and sprats

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What are the drivers of microplastic toxicity? Comparing the toxicity of plastic chemicals and particles to Daphnia magna

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Uptake of microplastics by carrots in presence of As (III): Combined toxic effects

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Air Pollution, Ultrafine and Nanoparticle Toxicology: Cellular and Molecular Interactions

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Microplastic contamination of packaged meat: Occurrence and associated risks

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Occurrence of microplastics in the Han River and riverine fish in South Korea

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Contamination issues as a challenge in quality control and quality assurance in microplastics analytics

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Uptake and accumulation of microplastics in an edible plant

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Drinking plastics? – Quantification and qualification of microplastics in drinking water distribution systems by µFTIR and Py-GCMS

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Polyethylene microplastics influence the transport of organic contaminants in soil

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Physiological response of cucumber (Cucumis sativus L.) leaves to polystyrene nanoplastics pollution

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Microplastics from consumer plastic food containers: Are we consuming it?

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Extraction, enumeration and identification methods for monitoring microplastics in the environment

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Smaller-sized micro-plastics (MPs) contamination in single-use PET-bottled water in Thailand

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Research progress in sources, analytical methods, eco-environmental effects, and control measures of microplastics

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Microplastics in Food: A Review on Analytical Methods and Challenges

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Distribution characteristics of microplastics in the seawater and sediment: A case study in Jiaozhou Bay, China

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Potential adverse health effects of ingested micro- and nanoplastics on humans. Lessons learned from in vivo and in vitro mammalian models

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Microplastics and other harmful substances released from disposable paper cups into hot water

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Microplastics in the commercial seaweed nori

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Contamination of table salts from Turkey with microplastics

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Identification of microplastics in surface water and Australian freshwater shrimp Paratya australiensis in Victoria, Australia

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Pathways of human exposure to microplastics, and estimation of the total burden

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Microplastics in water, sediment and fish from the Fengshan River system: Relationship to aquatic factors and accumulation of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons by fish

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Marine mammals and microplastics: A systematic review and call for standardisation

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Adsorption, uptake and toxicity of micro- and nanoplastics: Effects on terrestrial plants and aquatic macrophytes

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Toxic effects of exposure to microplastics with environmentally relevant shapes and concentrations: Accumulation, energy metabolism and tissue damage in oyster Crassostrea gigas

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Metro station free drinking water fountain- A potential “microplastics hotspot” for human consumption

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Origin of Synthetic Particles in Honeys

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