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ClearMicroplastics in the Environment: Uptake, Bioaccumulation and Impacts on Plants, Animals and Humans Health: A Review
This review examines microplastic uptake, bioaccumulation, and health impacts across plants, animals, and humans. The study summarizes current evidence on how microplastic particles smaller than 5 mm have been detected in all environmental compartments and are entering biological systems through multiple exposure pathways.
Sources and distributions of microplastics and the hazards to plants, animals and human health:A review.
This review examines the sources, distribution, and health impacts of microplastics on plants, animals, and humans. Researchers found that microplastics enter organisms through multiple exposure pathways and can adsorb heavy metals and persistent organic pollutants due to their large surface area, potentially amplifying adverse effects on metabolism and overall health.
Plastics and Micro/Nano-Plastics (MNPs) in the Environment: Occurrence, Impact, and Toxicity
This review provides a broad overview of how plastics break down into micro- and nanoplastics in soil, water, and air, and how these tiny particles are taken up by plants, animals, and humans. As plastics age in the environment, they become more reactive and potentially more toxic. The paper discusses how these particles enter the body, where they accumulate, and the toxic effects observed in studies so far.
Research progress on the sources and toxicology of micro (nano) plastics in environment
This review covers sources, distribution, and toxicity of micro- and nanoplastics across soil, water, and air, including effects on organisms and human health. It provides a comprehensive overview of the state of knowledge on environmental microplastic contamination and its consequences.
Microplastics in the Human Food Chain: Exposure and Health Implications
This review documents how microplastics have permeated the human food chain and are now detected in human tissues including lungs, liver, placenta, and breast milk, examining exposure routes through ingestion, inhalation, and dermal contact and the potential health consequences of this ubiquitous contamination.
Plastics, microplastics, and human contamination: A literature review
This literature review synthesizes research on human contamination by plastics and microplastics, covering ingestion, inhalation, and dermal exposure routes and summarizing documented health effects across organ systems.
Environmental distribution, transport and ecotoxicity of microplastics: A review
This review covers the environmental distribution and transport of microplastics across marine, freshwater, soil, and atmospheric compartments, and analyzes their toxicity to organisms at different trophic levels including potential effects on human health.
The growing threats and mitigation of environmental microplastics
This review summarizes the growing threat of microplastic pollution across soil, air, and water, and its harmful effects on marine life, land animals, and humans. Microplastics enter the body through ingestion, inhalation, and skin contact, where they can suppress the immune system, cause inflammation, blood cell damage, and even death in organisms. The review highlights that as plastics age and break down, they become more toxic and more easily absorbed by living things.
Microplastics and Human Health: A Comprehensive Review on Exposure Pathways, Toxicity, and Emerging Risks
This comprehensive review examines microplastic exposure pathways in humans, methods of detection, and the potential toxic effects on various biological systems. The study highlights growing evidence that microplastics can enter the body through ingestion, inhalation, and dermal contact, and may affect multiple organ systems, though significant uncertainties remain about long-term health outcomes.
Microplastics in the Environment: Intake through the Food Web, Human Exposure and Toxicological Effects
This review summarizes how microplastics enter the human body through food, water, air, and even products like honey, milk, and meat. Humans are exposed mainly through inhalation and ingestion, and lab studies show that high concentrations of microplastics can trigger inflammation, immune responses, and reproductive problems in animal models. More research is needed to understand the health effects of the lower levels of microplastics that people actually encounter in daily life.
Human Exposure to Microplastics and Its Associated Health Risks
This review examines how microplastics enter the human body through food, air, and skin, and have been detected in stool, blood, and tissues. Research in lab animals and human cells shows that microplastics can disrupt digestion, immunity, the nervous system, and reproduction, and can also amplify the toxicity of other environmental pollutants they carry.
Microplastics contamination in soil, water, air, and environmental health risk assessment
This review surveys the contamination of soil, water, and air by microplastics and assesses the associated environmental health risks. Researchers found that microplastics are present across all environmental compartments and can enter the food chain, potentially affecting both ecosystems and human health. The study calls for standardized detection methods and more comprehensive risk assessments to better understand the full scope of microplastic exposure.
Occurrence, distribution, characteristics, toxicity, human health effects and removal techniques of Microplastic: A Review
This review surveys the occurrence, distribution, toxicity, and health effects of microplastics across environmental compartments, examining how these particles enter ecosystems and food chains and evaluating available removal and mitigation techniques.
Microplastics in humans: Current evidence of presence and their role in organ toxicity
This comprehensive review examined how microplastics enter the human body through ingestion, inhalation, dermal absorption, and maternal-fetal transfer, summarizing documented evidence of MP presence and toxic effects across multiple organs.
Microplastic pollution in soils, plants, and animals: A review of distributions, effects and potential mechanisms
This review covers the distribution and effects of microplastics in soils, plants, and animals, examining how plastic pollution moves through terrestrial ecosystems. Microplastics in soil can alter microbial communities, reduce plant growth, and accumulate in animals that ingest contaminated food or water. The review highlights that land-based microplastic pollution is as serious a concern as ocean contamination and poses direct risks to agriculture and human food safety.
Source and Route of Microplastics in Terrestrial, Atmospheric, and Aquatic Environments, and Effects of Microplastics on Organisms
This review summarizes the sources, transport routes, and ecological effects of microplastics across terrestrial, atmospheric, and aquatic environments, highlighting how trophic transfer through food chains can ultimately lead to human ingestion.
How microplastics interact with food chain: a short overview of fate and impacts
This review examines how microplastics move through the food chain, from water and soil into plants and animals, and ultimately into human food. Microplastics become more dangerous when they absorb toxic chemicals from the environment, and they accumulate in organisms because they take longer to pass through the body than to be consumed. The review highlights that microplastic bioaccumulation through the food web is a direct pathway for human exposure.
Microplastics: Their effects on the environment, human health, and plant ecosystems
Researchers reviewed how microplastics enter the human body through ingestion, inhalation, and skin contact, potentially causing cell damage, hormone disruption, and cardiovascular harm, while also degrading soil quality and stunting plant growth. The review urges urgent action given how thoroughly these particles have infiltrated both human health and agricultural systems.
The Impact of Microplastics on Human Health: a Comprehensive Review
This comprehensive review summarizes how microplastics — found in air, water, and food — enter the human body through ingestion, inhalation, and skin contact, and have been detected in organs including the lungs, liver, kidneys, placenta, and brain. Microplastic exposure has been associated with respiratory disorders, gut inflammation, reproductive toxicity, immune dysfunction, and potential neurological effects.
Microplastics as Emerging Environmental Pollutants: Implications for Ecosystems and Human Health
This comprehensive review documents how microplastics have spread to every environmental compartment on Earth — from ocean floors to mountain air — and synthesizes evidence of harm across species and ecosystems, including physical injury, hormonal disruption, reproductive damage, and chemical toxicity. For humans, microplastics have now been detected in blood, lung tissue, and the placenta, with exposure occurring through food, water, and air. While definitive proof of human disease causation is still accumulating, the review argues the breadth of biological impacts already documented justifies urgent action.
Animal exposure to microplastics and health effects: A review
Researchers reviewed how microplastic exposure affects animals across terrestrial and aquatic environments, finding that species suffer physical harm, chemical contamination from pollutants that stick to plastic surfaces, inflammation, and behavioral changes. Because microplastics accumulate up the food chain, the review warns that animals entering the human food supply may carry these particles into our bodies.
Toxicity assessment of microplastic (MPs); a threat to the ecosystem
This review describes how microplastics enter the food chain through contaminated soil, water, food, and household products, and have been confirmed present in the human body. Microplastics damage soil structure, harm soil microorganisms, reduce plant growth, and once inside humans through various exposure routes, may trigger inflammation and other health effects.
Microplastics in the Environment
This review surveys global evidence for microplastic contamination in environmental and human samples, covering exposure through ingestion, inhalation, and skin contact, and examining known and potential health risks. The authors note that despite frequent detection, the causal evidence linking microplastic exposure to specific human health outcomes remains limited, calling for more rigorous toxicological and epidemiological research.
Microplastic distribution and its implications for human health through marine environments
This review summarizes recent research on how microplastics spread through the ocean and enter the human body through seafood, inhaled air, and skin contact. Studies show these tiny particles can cause inflammation, organ damage, breathing problems, and metabolic disruptions, highlighting the health risks of microplastic contamination in marine food sources.