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Preparation and analysis of standards containing microfilaments/microplastic with fibre shape

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Raffaella Mossotti Giulia Dalla Fontana, Raffaella Mossotti Giulia Dalla Fontana, Raffaella Mossotti Raffaella Mossotti Raffaella Mossotti Raffaella Mossotti Giulia Dalla Fontana, Anastasia Anceschi, Raffaella Mossotti Giulia Dalla Fontana, Tiziano Battistini, Raffaella Mossotti Giulia Dalla Fontana, Giulia Dalla Fontana, Giulia Dalla Fontana, Raffaella Mossotti Raffaella Mossotti Raffaella Mossotti Raffaella Mossotti Anastasia Anceschi, Giulia Dalla Fontana, Anastasia Anceschi, Giulia Dalla Fontana, Anastasia Anceschi, Anastasia Anceschi, Anastasia Anceschi, Enrico Gasparin, Giulia Dalla Fontana, Giulia Dalla Fontana, Enrico Gasparin, Enrico Gasparin, Enrico Gasparin, Tiziano Battistini, Enrico Gasparin, Enrico Gasparin, Raffaella Mossotti Raffaella Mossotti Raffaella Mossotti Tiziano Battistini, Enrico Gasparin, Tiziano Battistini, Tiziano Battistini, Raffaella Mossotti Raffaella Mossotti Giulia Dalla Fontana, Giulia Dalla Fontana, Giulia Dalla Fontana, Raffaella Mossotti Raffaella Mossotti Raffaella Mossotti Raffaella Mossotti Raffaella Mossotti Raffaella Mossotti Giulia Dalla Fontana, Giulia Dalla Fontana, Giulia Dalla Fontana, Tiziano Battistini, Raffaella Mossotti Giulia Dalla Fontana, Raffaella Mossotti

Summary

Researchers developed and validated reference standards containing synthetic textile microfilaments for use in laboratory analysis of microplastics. Standardized reference materials are essential for ensuring that analytical methods for detecting textile-derived microplastics are accurate and comparable across different labs.

Synthetic clothing represents a primary source of environmental pollution because of shedding of microfilaments during laundry washing or in textile processes. Although many approaches can be used for the evaluation of microplastic, there are no precise guideline to follow for the analysis labs. Here, an accurate method for the preparation of microfilaments standard suspensions to facilitate lab tests and the monitoring of microplastic in different matrices was developed. Different standard suspensions were prepared by using five different synthetic threads consisting of a different number of filaments cut with a predetermined length of 0.2 mm suspended in three different volumes of water. The suspensions were filtered and the microfilaments were counted. The number of microfilaments for each polymer solution were statistically elaborated with a logit model and the results showed that the probability of detecting them is higher than 95% when the concentration of microfilaments/L is lower than 200. Moreover, a relationship between the theoretical microfilaments contained in the samples and the detection probability of the single microfilament, for each suspension volume was highlighted.

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