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Interaction of Antibiotics with Microplastics in Agricultural Soils

˜The œhandbook of environmental chemistry 2025
Laura Martín-Pozo, Carmen Mejías, Noelia García-Criado, Julia Martín, Juan Luis Santos, Irene Aparicio, Esteban Alonso, Esteban Alonso

Summary

This study investigates how co-occurring antibiotics and microplastics interact in agricultural soils, finding that plastic particles can adsorb antibiotics and alter their mobility, persistence, and bioavailability to soil organisms. The antibiotic-microplastic interaction in farmland soils raises concerns about accelerated antibiotic resistance development and the contamination of crops grown in affected fields.

The widespread use of antibiotics and the extensive application of plastic films in agriculture have led to the increasing co-occurrence of antibiotics and microplastics in the environment. Both are now recognized as environmental contaminants of emerging concern....

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