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The Impact of Microplastics on the Global Food Industry: A Brief Overview of This Extremely Diverse and Complex Sector
Summary
This review examines how microplastic contamination threatens every sector of the global food industry, from agricultural soils and irrigation water to livestock feed and seafood. Because microplastics adsorb toxic chemicals and can transfer through the food chain into human tissue, the authors argue that food safety frameworks urgently need to incorporate microplastic monitoring and mitigation strategies.
Environmental pollution management combined with food safety represent two of the main important challenges of the last decades. Soil and water contamination. have historically threatened food safety. As ubiquitous pollutants, microplastics (MPs) have attracted increasing attention over the last few years, due to their impact on the socio-ecological system. These particles can affect the balance of terrestrial, aquatic and aerial ecosystems. Their negative impacts are intensified when they adsorb and carry toxic chemicals. They can circulate through organisms and accumulate in the human food chain. Physiological dysfunctions in living beings continue to be reported, both in terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems. The question that remains is on what scale this might be affecting the global production of food. The present article addresses issues related to the food industry, including agriculture, livestock, and fish farming. In doing so it seeks to provide subsidies for the evaluation of the real impact of MP dispersion through the different world environments and the resulting effects on global food production.
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