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Supporting data for the article 'An ex vivo study examining migration of microplastics from an infused neonatal parenteral nutrition circuit'
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Researchers conducted an ex vivo study examining the migration of microplastics from infused neonatal parenteral nutrition circuits, providing raw concentration data and ATR-FTIR spectral characterization of particles shed by individual circuit components.
This supporting data contains detailed informaiton on the methods used, the raw data, the concentrations of microplastics in a summary table and the results of ATR-FTIR measurements on the seperate parts of a parenteral nutrition circuit.
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