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ClearGlobal Perspectives on Food Safety and Quality Control Standards: A Comprehensive Review
This review examined the global landscape of food safety and quality control standards, including frameworks like HACCP and Good Manufacturing Practices that help identify and reduce foodborne illness risks. Researchers highlighted emerging challenges from globalization, new technologies, and environmental concerns like microplastic contamination that require adaptive safety approaches. The study emphasizes that strong food safety practices protect public health while also building consumer trust and supporting sustainable food systems.
Microplastics as Emerging Food Contaminants: A Challenge for Food Safety
This review examines microplastics as an emerging contaminant in the food supply, covering how they enter the food chain, their characteristics, and the challenges of assessing their health risks. Researchers found that while microplastics have been detected in a wide range of food products, current scientific data is insufficient to complete a thorough risk assessment of dietary exposure. The study calls for standardized detection methods and more research to establish safe exposure thresholds for microplastics in food.
Emerging Threat of Food Contamination by Microplastics and its Influence on Safety and Human Perspective
Researchers reviewed how widespread plastic use across industry has made microplastic contamination of food a serious public health concern, with particles entering the food supply through environmental pathways including runoff, wastewater, and air. Addressing this threat requires tighter regulations, better food supply monitoring, and public education on exposure risks.
The Impact of Microplastics on the Global Food Industry: A Brief Overview of This Extremely Diverse and Complex Sector
This review examines how microplastic contamination threatens every sector of the global food industry, from agricultural soils and irrigation water to livestock feed and seafood. Because microplastics adsorb toxic chemicals and can transfer through the food chain into human tissue, the authors argue that food safety frameworks urgently need to incorporate microplastic monitoring and mitigation strategies.
Microplastics Pollution as an Invisible Potential Threat to Food Safety and Security, Policy Challenges and the Way Forward
This review synthesized studies from 1999 to 2020 on microplastics in aquatic ecosystems and human food products, documenting toxic effects from animal studies and identifying major policy gaps in plastic use and disposal regulation, particularly regarding human health risk assessment.
Distribution, Prevention, and Control of Emerging Food Contamination
This review examined the distribution, prevention, and control of emerging food contaminants including microplastics, nanoplastics, and chemical additives, summarizing regulatory frameworks and analytical detection methods across food categories.
Toxicological impacts and mitigation strategies of food contaminants: a global perspective and comprehensive narrative review
This comprehensive review examines the toxicological impacts of food contaminants, including heavy metals, mycotoxins, pesticides, and microplastics, from a global health perspective. Researchers synthesized evidence on the cellular and molecular mechanisms of harm caused by these contaminants and assessed current monitoring and mitigation strategies. The study calls for stronger international coordination to address the growing complexity of food safety challenges.
Uncovering the hidden risks of microplastics in the food chain
This review highlights how microplastics in the food chain serve as surfaces for microbial colonization, potentially acting as vehicles that transfer harmful pathogens through seafood, produce, and food processing environments. The authors argue that current food safety standards are inadequate to address this microplastic-driven microbial risk and that urgent regulatory and research action is needed.
A review on micro and nano plastics: A rising concern as food contaminants
This review examined micro- and nanoplastics (MNPs) as rising food contaminants, reporting concentrations up to 1.7 million particles/km² in some ocean regions and documenting how MNPs enter food chains through water, seafood, packaging, and food processing—posing risks to food safety and human health.
Microplastics in seafood: Implications for food security, safety, and human health
This review examines how microplastics contaminate seafood -- from fish and shellfish to seaweed -- and what that means for food safety and human health. Marine organisms accumulate microplastics along with the harmful chemicals and antibiotic-resistant bacteria attached to them, creating multiple exposure risks when people eat seafood. With global seafood consumption rising sharply, the authors argue that microplastic contamination in the food supply deserves urgent attention from food safety regulators.
Food Contaminants: A Scoping Review of Sources, Toxicity, Pathophysiological Insights, and Mitigation Strategies
This scoping review examines various food contaminants including microplastics, heavy metals, pesticides, and mycotoxins, covering their sources, toxicity, and strategies for mitigation. Researchers synthesized evidence on how these contaminants enter the food supply and their potential effects on human health. The study highlights the growing concern around microplastics as a food contaminant and calls for integrated approaches to food safety monitoring.
Microplastics and Nanoplastics: Emerging Contaminants in Food
This systematic review focuses on microplastics and nanoplastics as emerging contaminants in our food supply. These tiny particles enter food through packaging, processing, and environmental contamination. Current detection methods are still limited, making it difficult to fully measure how much plastic we are eating — highlighting the need for better testing to protect food safety.
Microplastics: an emerging threat to food security and human health
This review examines the growing body of evidence showing that microplastics are present in seafood and other food products worldwide, making human dietary exposure virtually unavoidable. Researchers summarize the potential risks to food security and human health from ingesting microplastics and the chemical contaminants they carry. The study identifies significant research gaps and calls for more work on monitoring and eliminating microplastics throughout the food supply chain.
Microplastics: Environmental Ubiquity, Biological Fate, and Human Health Implications
This review summarizes the current understanding of microplastics as a growing global contaminant affecting both ecosystems and human health. Researchers note that microplastics can carry harmful compounds and have been found throughout the environment and in the human body, while global regulatory frameworks remain insufficient. The study calls for enhanced monitoring, stricter regulations, and source-reduction strategies to address the long-term risks of microplastic exposure.
Food Safety
This paper is not relevant to microplastics research — it is a broad overview of food safety topics including packaging standards, antimicrobial approvals, and food hygiene; microplastics are mentioned only in passing.
Hazards and Improvement Measures of Microplastic Pollution: A Review
This review summarized the hazards of marine microplastic pollution and current removal technologies, and called for stronger international policy and cooperation. It highlighted that microplastics carry toxic chemicals and affect marine food webs, ultimately threatening seafood safety for humans.
Discovery and solution for microplastics: New risk carriers in food
This review summarizes the current state of microplastic contamination in food, covering which foods are affected, how to detect microplastics, and how to break them down. Microplastics accumulate through the food chain and have been confirmed in many everyday foods, posing serious health risks. The authors call for standardized detection methods and national policies to monitor and reduce microplastic contamination in the food supply.
Chemical safety of food products: problems and solutions (literature review)
This literature review examines chemical safety challenges in food production and processing, covering contamination by pesticides, heavy metals, mycotoxins, and emerging pollutants including microplastics, and discussing regulatory and technological solutions.
The Burden of Microplastics Pollution and Contending Policies and Regulations
This review examines the growing global burden of microplastic pollution and the policies being developed to address it. Researchers found that inadequate waste management systems allow massive amounts of plastic to contaminate terrestrial and aquatic environments, threatening ecosystems and the billions of people who depend on them. The study evaluates existing regulations and suggests that stronger, more coordinated policy frameworks are needed to curb microplastic pollution.
Microplastics and nanoplastics in food, water, and beverages; part I. occurrence
Researchers reviewed what is currently known about the presence of microplastics and nanoplastics in food, water, and beverages, concluding that while contamination has been detected across many products, a lack of standardized detection methods makes it difficult to fully assess the food safety risks to human health.
Microplastics a Hidden Threat in our Food and Water Supply
Researchers reviewed how microplastics — tiny plastic fragments under 5 mm — enter ecosystems through runoff, wastewater, and air, and accumulate in both aquatic and land organisms, threatening biodiversity and human health through the food chain. The review also highlights monitoring technologies and the importance of strong governance to address this growing global contamination problem.
Microplastic Contamination in the Global Food Supply Chain
This systematic review assessed global microplastic contamination across food supply chain products from 2007 to 2022, including seafood, salt, honey, beer, and bottled water. Virtually all food categories showed microplastic presence, with seafood showing the highest levels and highlighting that diverse dietary sources collectively contribute to daily human plastic ingestion.
Food Contamination with Micro-plastics: Occurrences, Bioavailability,Human Vulnerability, and Prevention
The study reviews the occurrence, bioavailability, and potential health impacts of microplastics in food, noting that contamination has been detected in foodstuffs and beverages worldwide. Researchers highlight that current data on dietary microplastic exposure remains insufficient for comprehensive risk assessment, and call for standardized methodologies to better evaluate the threat to human health.
Microplastics, PFAS, and Pharmaceutical Residues as Emerging Contaminants in the Global Food Chain
This chapter reviews how microplastics, PFAS, and pharmaceutical residues enter the global food chain through industrial discharge, agricultural practices, and environmental runoff, emphasising their persistence and bioaccumulation. It evaluates the human health implications and regulatory challenges of managing these co-occurring emerging contaminants.