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Plastic Treatment and Microplastic Production, and Their Presence in Feed and Food
Summary
This Spanish preprint discusses the presence of plastics and microplastics in food, examining how much we consume and how they reach the food supply. The authors also discuss plastic waste management in Europe and Spain and analytical methods for detecting microplastics in food.
This preprint is focused in the presence of plastics and microplastics in food. We will discuss how many we eat, and how they arrive to the food, and why. We will treat many other things, such as the waste treatment in Europe and in Spain, with updated data; how much plastic waste is generated; what are microplastics and how they are analyzed, I will tell about the experience we have at the University of Alicante (UA); how they can be removed and we will estimate how many we eat over the course of a year.