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Novel Plasticizers Are Emerging Contaminants

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Margit Heinlaan, Heiki Vija, Irina Blinova

Summary

This review examines novel plasticizers — chemicals added to plastics to make them flexible — as emerging environmental contaminants. As regulators restrict traditional phthalate plasticizers due to their hormonal effects, newer replacement plasticizers are entering the environment with limited toxicological data, and may be found as additives in microplastic particles.

In recent years, plastic use and pollution have gained a lot of attention [...]

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