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ClearMicro- 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.
Microplastics and Nanoplastics in Food
This review summarized the current evidence on microplastic and nanoplastic contamination in food, covering their sources, analytical detection methods, and potential health implications for consumers. The paper highlighted the rapid growth in food contamination data and the ongoing uncertainties about human dietary exposure levels and health risks.
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.
Microplastics in food - a critical approach to definition, sample preparation, and characterisation
This review critically examines how microplastics in food are defined, extracted, and analyzed across different studies, finding significant inconsistencies that make it hard to compare results. The lack of standardized methods for isolating and identifying microplastics in food means that contamination levels may be over- or underestimated. The authors call for unified research methods to enable credible assessments of how dietary microplastic exposure affects health.
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.
Micro- and nanoplastics: Contamination routes of food products and critical interpretation of detection strategies
This review evaluates current methods for detecting micro and nanoplastics in food and beverages, from sample preparation to chemical identification. The authors highlight significant challenges including detection sensitivity limits, interference from food matrices, and a lack of standardized protocols. Better analytical tools are needed to accurately assess how much microplastic contamination people are actually consuming.
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.
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 in Foods and Beverages
This review examines microplastic contamination across a wide range of food and beverage products, describing the detection techniques used to identify microplastic particles and summarizing findings on which products are most affected. The authors also discuss the potential health consequences of human dietary microplastic ingestion.
Microplastics: A review of analytical methods, occurrence and characteristics in food, and potential toxicities to biota
This review collected research from 2010 to 2020 on microplastics found in six categories of food, summarizing the analytical methods used to detect them and their potential toxic effects on living organisms. Researchers found that microplastics are present across a wide range of foods, with inconsistencies in detection methods making direct comparisons between studies difficult. The study calls for standardized analytical approaches to better understand the true extent of microplastic contamination in the human food supply.
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.
Are Microplastics a Macro Issue? A Review on the Sources of Contamination, Analytical Challenges and Impact on Human Health of Microplastics in Food
This systematic review examines how microplastics enter the human food supply and what health effects they may cause. The research found microplastics in a wide range of foods, but major inconsistencies in testing methods make it difficult to determine true contamination levels. While the full health impact remains unclear, the evidence suggests that microplastic exposure through food is widespread and warrants further study.
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.
Methods for separating and extracting microplastics from food systems
This review examines methods for separating and extracting microplastics from food systems, addressing the challenge that inadequate collection and analysis methods have hindered accurate assessment of microplastic contamination in the food supply. The authors evaluate digestion, filtration, and spectroscopic identification protocols and identify best practices for standardizing microplastic analysis in diverse food matrices.
Assessing microplastics and nanoplastics in food
This review assessed analytical methods for measuring micro- and nanoplastics in food, covering current detection limits, sample preparation challenges, and regulatory gaps. The authors found that while microplastics are detectable in diverse food products, nanoplastic analysis remains technically demanding and that harmonized methods for food matrices are urgently needed to support risk assessment.
Microplastics in Food: A Review on Analytical Methods and Challenges
This review summarizes the presence of microplastics in various food products and evaluates the analytical methods used for their detection and identification. Researchers found that microplastics have been documented in seafood, salt, honey, beverages, and other commonly consumed foods, though concentrations vary widely. The study highlights the need for standardized sampling and analysis protocols to enable better risk assessments of human dietary microplastic exposure.
Microplastics in food packaging: Analytical methods, health risks, and sustainable alternatives
This review examines how microplastics from food packaging materials can migrate into the food we eat during storage and handling. It evaluates analytical methods for detecting this contamination and suggests biodegradable polymers as promising eco-friendly alternatives, while noting that standardized testing methods and risk assessment frameworks are still needed.
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.
Review of micro- and nanoplastic contamination in the food chain
This review examines the contamination of the human food chain with micro- and nanoplastics, from seafood and drinking water to processed foods and packaging. Researchers found that while plastic particles are widely present in food and beverages, the actual health impacts on humans remain largely unknown due to inconsistent study methods. The study calls for standardized analytical approaches to properly assess dietary microplastic exposure and its potential risks.
Extraction and detection methods of microplastics in food and marine systems: A critical review
This critical review evaluates the various methods used to extract and detect microplastics in food and marine samples, from sample preparation to analytical identification. Researchers found significant inconsistencies across studies in how microplastics are separated, quantified, and characterized, making it difficult to compare results. The study calls for standardized protocols to enable more reliable assessments of microplastic contamination in food and the environment.
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.
Microplastics and Nanoplastics in Food
This book chapter reviews the occurrence of microplastics and nanoplastics in food, covering contamination sources across seafood, fresh produce, beverages, and packaged foods, as well as analytical methods for their detection. The authors discuss gaps in exposure data needed for dietary risk assessment.
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.
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.