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Microplastic Menace: How Contaminated Seafood Puts Food Security at Risk

2025
Vikas Kumar, Siddhnath, Nikheel Bhojraj Rathod, Hafsa Maqbool, Gurjeet Kaur, Simran Kaur, Vijay Kumar Reddy

Summary

Researchers reviewed how microplastics from polystyrene, polypropylene, and polyethylene sources enter aquatic systems through human activities, accumulate in seafood, and threaten food security by contaminating supply chains from ocean to plate.

Microplastics, tiny plastic particles, reach aquatic systems through various human activities by different pathways. Microplastics usually classified as primary and secondary are typically composed of polymers such as polystyrene, polypropylene, polyethylene, and...

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