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Solving Familiar Problems: Leveraging Environmental Testing Methods for Nanomaterials to Evaluate Microplastics and Nanoplastics

Nanomaterials 2022 9 citations ? Citation count from OpenAlex, updated daily. May differ slightly from the publisher's own count. Score: 45 ? 0–100 AI score estimating relevance to the microplastics field. Papers below 30 are filtered from public browse.
Elijah J. Petersen Frank von der Kammer, Thorsten Hüffer, Thorsten Hüffer, Thorsten Hüffer, Thorsten Hüffer, Thorsten Hüffer, Thorsten Hüffer, Thorsten Hüffer, Thorsten Hüffer, Alan R. Kennedy, Elijah J. Petersen Elijah J. Petersen Thorsten Hüffer, Alan R. Kennedy, Alan R. Kennedy, Frank von der Kammer, Thorsten Hüffer, Thorsten Hüffer, Thorsten Hüffer, Alan R. Kennedy, Thorsten Hüffer, Thorsten Hüffer, Elijah J. Petersen Thorsten Hüffer, Frank von der Kammer, Thorsten Hüffer, Thorsten Hüffer, Thorsten Hüffer, Thorsten Hüffer, Thorsten Hüffer, Frank von der Kammer, Thorsten Hüffer, Thorsten Hüffer, Thorsten Hüffer, Frank von der Kammer, Frank von der Kammer, Alan R. Kennedy, Frank von der Kammer, Thorsten Hüffer, Frank von der Kammer, Alan R. Kennedy, Thorsten Hüffer, Thorsten Hüffer, Thorsten Hüffer, Thorsten Hüffer, Thorsten Hüffer, Thorsten Hüffer, Alan R. Kennedy, Thorsten Hüffer, Thorsten Hüffer, Frank von der Kammer, Thorsten Hüffer, Thorsten Hüffer, Thorsten Hüffer, Thorsten Hüffer, Frank von der Kammer, Frank von der Kammer, Frank von der Kammer, Frank von der Kammer, Frank von der Kammer, Frank von der Kammer, Elijah J. Petersen

Summary

This paper argues that existing environmental testing frameworks developed for nanomaterials can be adapted to evaluate the risks of microplastics and nanoplastics, rather than building entirely new regulatory approaches from scratch. The authors outline how standard ecotoxicological methods could be leveraged to more efficiently characterize plastic particle hazards.

The potential environmental and human health risks from microplastic (1 µm to 1 mm) and nanoplastic (<1 µm) particles (MNPs) is receiving increasing attention from scientists and the public [...]

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