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A Review of Analytical Methods and Detection of Microplastics in Freshwater Aquatic Environments
Original title: 담수 물환경 중 미세플라스틱 분석방법 및 검출에 대한 고찰
Summary
This Korean review surveys analytical methods for detecting and characterizing microplastics in freshwater environments, noting that a lack of standardized techniques has produced incomparable data across studies. The authors call for a precise, standardized analytical method to enable systematic domestic and international management of freshwater microplastic contamination.
The research scope of microplastics in aqueous environment has been expanding from investigation of their presence in oceanic water to the analysis of their distribution and behavior in freshwater. However, research in aqueous environment is limited because the lack of standardized evaluation techniques has resulted in the use of various unrelated analysis methods, thus making it difficult to compare data on microplastic con tamination and distribution. Given their known oceanic distribution, a survey on the occurrence of microplastic contamination and behavior in the freshwater environment needs to be conducted using a precise and accurate standard analytical method. Such a method would facilitate a systematic and uniform approach to domestic and international safety management and to the development of improvement plans needed to mitigate microplastic contamination. In this study, we have summarized the technologies recently applied for microplastic analysis and for the investigation of microplastic occurrence in the freshwater environment. We have also presented a review on the analysis and evaluation of microplastic contamination in the future.