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Thermal analysis and enhanced visual technique for assessment of microplastics in fish from an Urban Harbor, Mediterranean Coast of Egypt

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Soha Shabaka Soha Shabaka Rasha Saad Marey, Soha Shabaka Soha Shabaka Mohamed Mohamady Ghobashy, Soha Shabaka Rasha Saad Marey, Rasha Saad Marey, Soha Shabaka Soha Shabaka Gehan A. Ismail, Rasha Saad Marey, Hanan M. Khairy, Mohamed Mohamady Ghobashy, Mohamed Mohamady Ghobashy, Soha Shabaka Soha Shabaka Soha Shabaka Soha Shabaka Rasha Saad Marey, Hanan M. Khairy, Mohamed Mohamady Ghobashy, Rasha Saad Marey, Soha Shabaka Soha Shabaka Atef M. Abushady, Soha Shabaka Mohamed Mohamady Ghobashy, Mohamed Mohamady Ghobashy, Atef M. Abushady, Soha Shabaka Gehan A. Ismail, Gehan A. Ismail, Mohamed Mohamady Ghobashy, Soha Shabaka Soha Shabaka Hanan M. Khairy, Soha Shabaka Soha Shabaka

Summary

Researchers applied an enhanced visual counting technique combined with combustion analysis and differential scanning calorimetry to assess microplastics in fish digestive tracts from Alexandria's Eastern Harbor, Egypt, detecting seven thermoplastic polymer types in all fish samples in what was the first such quantification study in Egypt.

Body Systems
Digestive

Enhanced visual counting technique coupled with combustion analysis and differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) was applied to assess microplastics (MPs) contamination in fish digestive tracts from Eastern Harbor, Egypt, to provide a simple and economic method for MPs assessment. This was the first study in Egypt to quantify MPs in fish. Plastic particles were detected in all fish samples, represented by seven thermoplastic polymers. The average number of MPs was at its highest level in Siganus rivulatus, Diplodus sargus, and Sardinella aurita (7527, 3593, and 1450MPs fish, resp.) and the lowest in Sphyraena viridensis and Atherina boyeri (46 and 28MPs fish, respectively). The average weight of MPs as measured by combustion ranged from 302mg kg in S. rivulatus to 2mg kg in Terapon puta.

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