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Results of VAMAS Survey Regarding Microplastic Issues

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Stefania Federici, Monika Rani, Laura E. Depero

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This paper presents the results of an international survey (VAMAS — Versailles Project on Advanced Materials and Standards) identifying the key measurement and standardization challenges in microplastic research. It highlights the urgent need for internationally agreed methods to detect, characterize, and quantify microplastics consistently.

Trillions of tiny particles generated by our plastic-reliant society are polluting environments worldwide. An explosion of research has been devoted in the last years to detect, identify and quantify the microplastics, hidden not only in the oceans but also in the world’s rivers, lakes, air, soil as well as food and organisms. Thus, we urgently need reliable standards to support the decision-maker to handle many issues related to this question. In this paper, the results of a VAMAS survey that involved 390 experts are presented and discussed. The inter-laboratory studies urgently needed in the next future are proposed.

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