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Correction to “Microplastic Human Dietary Uptake from 1990 to 2018 Grew across 109 Major Developing and Industrialized Countries but Can Be Halved by Plastic Debris Removal”
Summary
Researchers published a correction to a large modeling study that tracked human dietary microplastic intake across 109 countries from 1990 to 2018, updating the units used for key intake parameters so that results are correctly expressed in kilograms per person per day. The underlying finding — that microplastic ingestion grew over this period but could be significantly reduced by removing plastic debris — remains unchanged.
s Supporting Information I n section S4 of the Supporting Information, the units of parameters MFC j , MF l,j , MFT j , and MFW j have been corrected into kgcapita -1 day -1 to align with the MP concentration within foodstuffs (particlekg -1 ).MFC j MP uptake by humans from coffee in country j, kg capita -1 day -1 .MF l,j MP uptake by humans from food type l in country j, kgcapita -1 day -1 .MFT j MP uptake by humans from tea in country j, kg capita -1 day -1 .MFW j MP uptake by humans from drinking water in country j, kgcapita -1 day -1 . ASSOCIATED CONTENT * s Supporting InformationThe Supporting Information is available free of charge at https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.est.4c10354.Input data and nomenclature for MP human uptake calculation, highest and lowest MP human uptake in 2018, sensitivity analyses on MP human in vivo residence rate reduction, and uncertainty analysis on MP human in vivo residence rate (raw data shown in Figures S2-S6 used for MP human uptake estimation) (PDF)
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