Microplastics in human food chains: Food becoming a threat to health safety

A Al Mamun, TAE Prasetya, IR Dewi… - Science of The Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
While versatile application of plastics has generated huge benefits in our life, the 'plastic end-
of-life'comes with downsides of emerging concern is plastic particles within all parts of …

Recent approaches and advanced wastewater treatment technologies for mitigating emerging microplastics contamination–A critical review

RY Krishnan, S Manikandan, R Subbaiya… - Science of the Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
Microplastics have been identified as an emerging pollutant due to their irrefutable
prevalence in air, soil, and particularly, the aquatic ecosystem. Wastewater treatment plants …

[HTML][HTML] Raman microspectroscopy detection and characterisation of microplastics in human breastmilk

A Ragusa, V Notarstefano, A Svelato, A Belloni… - Polymers, 2022 - mdpi.com
The widespread use of plastics determines the inevitable human exposure to its by-
products, including microplastics (MPs), which enter the human organism mainly by …

[HTML][HTML] A review on the occurrence and influence of biodegradable microplastics in soil ecosystems: are biodegradable plastics substitute or threat?

P Fan, H Yu, B Xi, W Tan - Environment International, 2022 - Elsevier
Plastic products are widely used around the world, but waste plastic is not reasonably
managed and causes serious plastic pollution. Biodegradable plastics (BPs) provide an …

Polystyrene microplastics-induced cardiotoxicity in chickens via the ROS-driven NF-κB-NLRP3-GSDMD and AMPK-PGC-1α axes

Y Zhang, K Yin, D Wang, Y Wang, H Lu, H Zhao… - Science of The Total …, 2022 - Elsevier
Microplastics (MPs) pollution is getting increasingly prominent, and its dangers have
attracted widespread attention. The heart is the central hub of the organism's survival, and …

Environmental health impacts of microplastics exposure on structural organization levels in the human body

X Yang, YB Man, MH Wong, RB Owen… - Science of the Total …, 2022 - Elsevier
The ubiquitous prevalence of microplastics pollution has raised concerns about
microplastics' potential risks and impacts on the global environment. However, the potential …

Removal of microplastics from water by magnetic nano-Fe3O4

X Shi, X Zhang, W Gao, Y Zhang, D He - Science of The Total Environment, 2022 - Elsevier
Microplastics (MPs) have been widely detected in aquatic environments, and become
emerging contaminants of growing concern. It is urgently needed to explore how to …

[HTML][HTML] Interactions between microplastics and heavy metals in aquatic environments: a review

S Liu, J Shi, J Wang, Y Dai, H Li, J Li, X Liu… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Microplastics (MPs), tiny particles broken down from larger pieces of plastics, have
accumulated everywhere on the earth. As an inert carbon stream in aquatic environment …

Polystyrene microplastics up-regulates liver glutamine and glutamate synthesis and promotes autophagy-dependent ferroptosis and apoptosis in the cerebellum …

K Yin, D Wang, H Zhao, Y Wang, Y Zhang, Y Liu… - Environmental …, 2022 - Elsevier
Microplastics (MPs), which are emerging environmental pollutants, remain uncertainties in
their toxic mechanism. MPs have been linked to severe liver metabolic disorders and …

Microplastics and nanoplastics: emerging contaminants in food

Q Liu, Z Chen, Y Chen, F Yang, W Yao… - Journal of Agricultural …, 2021 - ACS Publications
As current concerns about food safety issues around the world are still relatively serious,
more and more food safety issues have become the focus of people's attention. What's more …