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Microplastic Pollution: Human Exposure, Uptake, Accumulation Pathways, and Potential Health Consequences
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Researchers reviewed the exposure routes, uptake mechanisms, and accumulation pathways of microplastics in the human body, concluding that the ubiquitous presence of these particles warrants urgent investigation into their long-term ecological and health consequences.
Microplastics are ubiquitous, universal environmental pollutants to which humans are inevitably exposed. Given their prevalence, long-term impacts on ecology and health from these particles require urgent investigation. There is an increasing total world plastic...
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