Microplastics as emerging food contaminants: a challenge for food safety

C Rubio-Armendáriz, S Alejandro-Vega… - International Journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
Microplastics (MPs) have been identified as emerging environmental pollutants classified as
primary or secondary based on their source. Composition, shape, size, and colour, among …

Microplastics in food: scoping review on health effects, occurrence, and human exposure

B Udovicki, M Andjelkovic, T Cirkovic-Velickovic… - International Journal of …, 2022 - Springer
With most of the plastics ever produced now being waste, slowly degrading and fragmenting
in the environment, microplastics (MPs) have become an emerging concern regarding their …

[HTML][HTML] Potential risk of microplastics in processed foods: Preliminary risk assessment concerning polymer types, abundance, and human exposure of microplastics

Q Lin, S Zhao, L Pang, C Sun, L Chen, F Li - … and Environmental Safety, 2022 - Elsevier
The occurrence of microplastics (MPs) has been widely reported in human foodstuffs, and
their potential negative effects on human health have been brought into focus. Processed …

Microplastics, a food safety issue?

S Rainieri, A Barranco - Trends in food science & technology, 2019 - Elsevier
The risk posed by microplastics for human and environment, has become a hot topic. The
concern is focused not only on the effect of microplastics as such but also on additives and …

Microplastics contamination in food and beverages: Direct exposure to humans

M Jin, X Wang, T Ren, J Wang… - Journal of Food …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Since microplastics (MPs) bring the potential risks to human health when plastics are
ingested, more needs to be known about the presence and abundance of human ingestion …

Food and human safety: The impact of microplastics

K Kadac-Czapska, E Knez… - Critical Reviews in Food …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Plastic waste pollution is one of the biggest problems in the world today. The amount of
plastic in the environment continues to increase, and human exposure to microplastic (MP) …

Microplastics in the environment: intake through the food web, human exposure and toxicological effects

C Pironti, M Ricciardi, O Motta, Y Miele, A Proto… - Toxics, 2021 - mdpi.com
Recently, studies on microplastics (MPs) have increased rapidly due to the growing
awareness of the potential health risks related to their occurrence. The first part of this review …

[HTML][HTML] Dietary microplastics: occurrence, exposure and health implications

A Sánchez, P Rodríguez-Viso, A Domene… - Environmental …, 2022 - Elsevier
The increasing use of plastic materials generates an enormous amount of waste. In the
aquatic environment, a significant part of this waste is present in the form of microplastics …

Microplastics in food: a review on analytical methods and challenges

JH Kwon, JW Kim, TD Pham, A Tarafdar… - International journal of …, 2020 - mdpi.com
Human exposure to microplastics contained in food has become a significant concern owing
to the increasing accumulation of microplastics in the environment. In this paper, we …

Microplastics in food commodities: A food safety review on human exposure through dietary sources

E Garrido Gamarro, V Constanzo - 2022 - oceanrep.geomar.de
The contamination of the environment with whole plastics or pieces thereof (microand
nanoplastics) is the subject of extensive discussion nowadays in academia and the media …