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TORPP - Turtles, One Health Research & Plastic Pollution: A multidisciplinary consortium to evaluate the environmental and health impact of Micro/NanoPlastics (MNPs) pollution

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Arnaud Legrand, Jean‐Christophe Auguet, Gaëlle Blanvillain, Gaëlle Blanvillain, Thibault Deschamps, Albert Martı́nez Silvestre, Jean‐Christophe Auguet, Sophie Lecomte Sophie Lecomte Guillaume Chapelet, Fabien Aubret, Sophie Lecomte Sophie Lecomte Sophie Lecomte Leonardo Garrido, Sophie Lecomte Sophie Lecomte Albert Martı́nez Silvestre, Sophie Lecomte Jean‐Christophe Auguet, Sophie Lecomte Sophie Lecomte Sophie Lecomte Sophie Lecomte Sophie Lecomte Anne Sauvaget, Anne Sauvaget, Sophie Lecomte

Summary

Researchers launched TORPP, a 16-discipline research consortium focused on micro- and nanoplastic (MNP) pollution as a "One Health" issue — meaning it threatens humans, animals, and ecosystems together. The group aims to combine marine ecology's expertise in detecting plastics with human medicine's understanding of disease mechanisms to better evaluate how MNPs harm living organisms.

Although the World Health Organization characterizes a One Health concern as one in which there is the capability to incorporate numerous disciplines to tackle health challenges threatening humans, animals and ecosystems, scientific efforts frequently remain compartmentalized. Here we report an original consortium, TORPP, spanning 16 disciplines, focused on Micro/NanoPlastics (MNPs) pollution as a One Health concern. Whereas the MNP topic has been largely studied in marine ecology, research effort remains scarce in human medicine. Equally, while marine ecology is highly skilled in MNP sampling and characterization, human medicine has developed pathophysiological concepts and tools that can be used more broadly to evaluate the health impact of MNPs. TORPP consortium propose that these strengths and knowledges must be transferred across fields of study to advance our understanding of MNP toxicity to organisms, by uniting integrative approaches (ecological, experimental and clinical) under a common conceptual and analytical framework.

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