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Data processing routines for European spacial surveys of microplastics in agricultural soil
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This paper is actually a technical toolkit, not a health study: it provides the calculation methods (R scripts) that scientists use to measure microplastic pollution levels in European farmland soil and compare them to safety thresholds. It matters because reliable measurement tools are the first step toward understanding whether microplastics in our food-growing soil could eventually affect the food we eat.
R script for calculating mass load of microplastics in agricultural soil in Europe. Including uncertainty analysis. R script for calculating excess rates of microplastics levels in soils against effect leves. Including uncertainty analysis. The script uses the spacial survey dataset of microplastic concentration from the PAPILLONS project.
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