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Entry of the Microplastics in Food Chain and Food Web
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This chapter documented the multiple routes by which microplastics enter the food chain — including ingestion by marine invertebrates, fish, and livestock, as well as contamination of crops via irrigation and soil amendments — and traced their biomagnification potential up the food web to human consumers. Because humans sit at the top of multiple food chains simultaneously, this multi-pathway exposure makes dietary microplastic intake a significant and difficult-to-avoid health concern.
The increased reliance on plastic products in day-to-day life has resulted in massive buildup of plastic waste in every ecosystem. Microplastics include plastic materials with size ranging from 1 micron to 5 mm and being the persistent and globally pervasive...
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