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Precision Nutrition Redefined: Integrative Molecular Frameworks for Personalized Dietary Interventions

This review explored the biochemical and molecular foundations of personalized nutrition, integrating nutrigenetics, epigenomics, microbiomics, and metabolomics to tailor dietary strategies to individual biology. The authors identified environmental contaminants, including microplastics, as factors that may interact with genetic and metabolic profiles to influence nutritional outcomes.

2025 Asian Journal of Biological Sciences
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Holistic Framework to Contextualize Dietary Quality Assessment: A Critical Review

This critical review evaluates existing dietary quality indices and finds that most focus narrowly on biomedical and nutritional factors while neglecting social, environmental, and food safety factors including microplastic and chemical contaminant exposure that affect real-world dietary outcomes.

2023 International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 3 citations
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Healthful Diet and Nutritional Food as a Preventive and Interventional Paradigm in the Face of Microplastic and Nanoplastic Crisis

This review examines dietary patterns and nutritional interventions as potential strategies to reduce health risks from microplastic and nanoplastic exposure, discussing how antioxidant-rich foods and specific nutrients may mitigate inflammation and oxidative stress triggered by MNP ingestion.

2025 Food Frontiers
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Plastics, diet and human health: Accurately assessing exposure in adults.

This research project is developing methods to accurately measure how much plastic people are exposed to through their diet, including microplastics from food packaging. The study examines whether reducing plastic food packaging can lower dietary plastic exposure and simultaneously improve diet quality. It matters because understanding true dietary exposure is a prerequisite for assessing health risks from microplastics in food.

2024 UWA Profiles and Research Repository (University of Western Australia)
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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.

2023 Current Nutrition & Food Science 7 citations
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Micro and Nano-plastic Particles in Food: Advancing Science to Safeguard Human Health

This research proposal outlines a study to characterize micro- and nanoplastic exposure levels in commonly consumed foods in the United States, developed in response to an IFANS funding call. The proposed work combines advanced analytical methods to build a comprehensive dietary exposure database for regulatory and public health risk assessment.

2025 OSF Preprints (OSF Preprints)
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Caracterización y Análisis de Micro y Nanoplásticos en los Alimentos

This work reviewed the origins, properties, and food safety risks of micro- and nanoplastics as emerging contaminants in the food chain, summarizing detection methods across different food matrices and examining routes of human exposure through diet.

2025 Zaguan (University of Zaragoza Repository)
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Micro- and nano-plastic contamination in foods and potential risk to human health

This review summarizes the current state of knowledge about micro- and nanoplastic contamination in food, covering sources, occurrence, and analytical detection methods. Researchers found that while various foods, especially seafood, contain measurable levels of microplastics, the health risks to humans remain difficult to assess due to inconsistent research methods. The study calls for standardized approaches to better evaluate dietary exposure and potential health impacts.

2025 Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety 2 citations
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The Presence of Micro- and Nanoplastics in Food and the Estimation of the Amount Consumed Depending on Dietary Patterns

This review examines how much micro- and nanoplastic contamination is present in different foods, from fruits and vegetables to seafood, meat, and dairy. For the first time, it compared microplastic intake across three common European diets and found that vegetarian diets actually resulted in the highest intake due to large amounts of fruits, vegetables, and legumes. The Mediterranean diet offered the best balance of health benefits and lower microplastic consumption.

2025 Molecules 6 citations
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Influence of Micro and Nanoplastics in Modern Food Chain: an Inevitable Intervention

This review examines the growing presence of microplastics and nanoplastics throughout the modern food chain, summarizing known entry points, concentrations in food commodities, and potential health consequences of regular human dietary exposure.

2024 1 citations
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Metabolomics-Based Insights Into the Toxicological Effects and Mechanisms of Microplastics: A Comprehensive Review.

This review of existing research shows that microplastics—tiny plastic particles found everywhere in our environment—can harm multiple body systems including the gut, brain, and reproductive organs. Scientists used a technique called metabolomics (studying how our body processes chemicals) to discover that microplastics disrupt normal metabolism, potentially affecting everything from digestion and brain function to fertility and child development. This research helps explain why microplastic pollution may be a serious health threat that requires urgent attention and solutions.

2026 PubMed
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Untoward Effects of Micro- and Nanoplastics: An Expert Review of Their Biological Impact and Epigenetic Effects

This expert review examined the biological and epigenetic effects of micro- and nanoplastics on living organisms. The study suggests that while intestinal uptake of plastic particles appears relatively low and size-dependent, nanoplastics may dysregulate molecular signaling pathways, alter gut microbiota composition, and induce transgenerational epigenetic changes potentially linked to metabolic disorders.

2021 Advances in Nutrition 63 citations
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The measurement of food safety and security risks associated with micro- and nanoplastic pollution

Researchers reviewed how micro- and nanoplastic pollution enters the human food chain through agricultural systems, raising concerns for food safety and security. They identified major gaps in our ability to assess the risks of plastic contamination in food and feed sources. The study calls for interdisciplinary approaches and better analytical methods to understand and address this growing challenge.

2023 TrAC Trends in Analytical Chemistry 33 citations
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Methods for the identification and quantification of microplastics in foods (a review)

This review examined analytical methods for identifying and quantifying microplastics in food, finding that standardized, sensitive techniques are urgently needed to accurately assess human dietary exposure to these emerging contaminants.

2023 Problems of Nutrition
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Faculty Opinions recommendation of Human Consumption of Microplastics.

A peer review endorsing a landmark study that quantified microplastic exposure through the American diet across 26 food categories, finding that Americans may consume tens of thousands of microplastic particles per year. Seafood, beer, and drinking water were identified as notable exposure routes.

2019 Faculty Opinions – Post-Publication Peer Review of the Biomedical Literature
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Impact of Cumulative Environmental and Dietary Xenobiotics on Human Microbiota: Risk Assessment for One Health

This review examines cumulative exposure to environmental and dietary xenobiotics including microplastics, pesticides, and food additives, assessing their combined impact on the human gut microbiome within a One Health risk framework.

2022 Journal of Xenobiotics 27 citations
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Microplastics in human feces and their correlation with dietary behavior: A pilot study

This pilot study analyzed microplastics in human fecal samples and examined correlations with dietary habits, finding that seafood and packaged food consumption were associated with higher fecal microplastic counts. The results provide early evidence linking diet to human microplastic exposure levels.

2024 Norsk tidsskrift for ernæring
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Relevance of gut microbiome research in food safety assessment

This review examines evidence that food additives and microplastics may disrupt the gut microbiome and, in turn, affect human health. The researchers discuss how these non-nutritive dietary compounds can alter gut bacterial communities through mechanisms that are often overlooked in food safety evaluations. They recommend integrating gut microbiome science into food risk assessment frameworks to better protect human health.

2024 Gut Microbes 6 citations
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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.

2025 International Journal of Advanced Science and Engineering
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Food Contamination by Microplastics and Human Health Implications

This review examines how food is contaminated by microplastics throughout the supply chain — from agricultural soil and irrigation water to food processing and packaging — and evaluates the health implications for human consumers. The authors estimate dietary microplastic intake across food categories and identify seafood, drinking water, and packaged foods as the highest-exposure routes.

2024 Food Safety
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Assessment of microplastics in human stool: A pilot study investigating the potential impact of diet-associated scenarios on oral microplastics exposure

In this pilot study, 15 volunteers followed different plastic-use and food consumption scenarios, and microplastics were detected in every stool sample collected, with polyethylene being the most common type. Using plastic packaging for food and eating highly processed foods were statistically linked to higher microplastic levels in stool, providing early evidence that dietary choices influence how many microplastics people ingest.

2024 The Science of The Total Environment 43 citations
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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.

2019 Journal of Food Science and Technology 437 citations
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Potential risk assessment and toxicological impacts of nano/micro-plastics on human health through food products

This review examined the potential risks and toxicological effects of nano- and microplastics on human health through food products, identifying key contamination sources in the food chain and their harmful impacts on the body.

2023 Advances in food and nutrition research 12 citations
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Microplastics contamination in food products: Occurrence, analytical techniques and potential impacts on human health

Researchers reviewed the occurrence of microplastics in a wide range of food products — including drinking water, seafood, honey, salt, and vegetables — and the health effects of ingesting them, which include inflammation, gut microbiome disruption, hormone disruption, and increased cancer risk. The review calls for standardized detection methods and a multi-pronged strategy combining source reduction, better recycling, and biodegradable plastic alternatives.

2024 Current Research in Biotechnology 72 citations