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Microplastics and Their Possible Effects on Seafoods

This review examines how microplastics enter seafood through ingestion and surface contamination, discussing evidence for plastic presence in fish, shellfish, and other seafood products consumed by humans. The authors evaluate potential health risks from both the plastic particles themselves and the chemical additives and pollutants they carry.

2024
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Microplastics in Fish and Fishery Products and Risks for Human Health: A Review

This review summarizes existing research on microplastic contamination in fish and seafood products and the associated human health risks. Microplastics found in fish can carry harmful chemicals and pathogens, and once eaten by humans, they may cause oxidative stress and move from the gut to other tissues. The review highlights seafood as a major dietary source of microplastic exposure and calls for better monitoring and risk assessment.

2022 International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 200 citations
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Microplastics and Nanoplastics in Food

This review summarizes how microplastics enter the food chain through seafood and aquaculture, carrying both physical and chemical hazards from plastic additives and adsorbed pollutants. It discusses the risks to human health from consuming seafood contaminated with microplastics.

2019 Current and future developments in food science 1 citations
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Microplastics in Fish and Shellfish – A Threat to Seafood Safety?

This review evaluated the current knowledge on microplastic contamination in fish and shellfish in relation to seafood safety. Researchers found that while microplastics are commonly detected in the gastrointestinal tracts of fish (which are typically not consumed), bivalves and small fish eaten whole may present a more direct route of human exposure, though the overall health risk from microplastics in seafood remains uncertain.

2020 Journal of Aquatic Food Product Technology 131 citations
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Impact of microplastics on human health and aquatic species

This review examines the harmful effects of microplastics on marine life and human health, covering physical injury, oxidative stress, and disrupted immune responses in fish and other organisms. Researchers found that these impacts can cascade through marine food webs, affecting biodiversity and ecosystem function. The study also highlights growing concerns about human exposure to microplastics through seafood and other pathways.

2024 E3S Web of Conferences 4 citations
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Microplastic Impacts on Seafood: A Global Synthesis of Experimental Findings

This systematic review synthesizes experimental findings on how microplastics affect commercially important seafood species worldwide. It finds that microplastic ingestion can impair growth, reproduction, and immune function in seafood organisms, with potential implications for both food safety and the fishing industry.

2026 Fish and Fisheries
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Microplastics—A New Threat to Aquatic Food Safety?

This review article examines whether microplastics pose a new threat to the safety of aquatic food sources, noting that plastics have accumulated widely in marine environments and are ingested by organisms throughout the food chain. The authors assess potential risks from microplastic particles in seafood and the possibility of chemical contaminants being transferred from plastic to human consumers.

2015 Journal of Aquatic Food Product Technology 5 citations
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Impacts of microplastic accumulation in aquatic environment: Physiological, eco-toxicological, immunological, and neurotoxic effects

This review summarizes how microplastics build up in fish and other aquatic life, causing damage to their immune systems, nervous systems, and overall health. When fish eat microplastics, the particles move up the food chain and can eventually reach humans through seafood consumption. The authors also discuss strategies for removing microplastics from water and reducing plastic pollution.

2024 Aquatic Toxicology 16 citations
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Microplastics (MPs) in marine food chains: Is it a food safety issue?

This review examined the presence and transfer of microplastics through marine food chains, assessing food safety risks from contaminated seafood and highlighting the ability of microplastics to sorb and leach chemical contaminants that may impact human health.

2022 Advances in food and nutrition research 20 citations
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Ecotoxicological effects of microplastics on biota: a review

This review examines the ecological impact of microplastics on organisms across different levels of the food chain, from plankton to fish. Researchers found that microplastic exposure triggers a range of harmful effects including oxidative stress, immune disruption, reproductive problems, and altered feeding behavior. The evidence suggests that microplastics pose a widespread toxicological threat to wildlife, though more research is needed to understand the long-term population-level consequences.

2018 Environmental Science and Pollution Research 786 citations
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Impact of Microplastics on Human Health through the Consumption of Seafood: A Review

This review synthesizes evidence on how microplastics in seafood pose health risks to humans upon ingestion, detailing how MPs spread through the digestive system to other organs and cause toxicological effects including oxidative stress, immune disruption, and metabolic changes.

2025 Journal of Clinical Medical and Experimental Images
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A comprehensive review of the impact of microplastics on aquatic organisms: From ingestion to ecological consequences

This comprehensive review assessed the impacts of microplastics on diverse aquatic organisms—including fish, marine mammals, mollusks, crustaceans, and microorganisms—from ingestion through ecological-level consequences. The authors found that microplastics cause physical injury, oxidative stress, endocrine disruption, and behavioral changes across taxa, with downstream effects on food web structure and ecosystem function.

2025 Applied Chemical Engineering
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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.

2023 Journal of Sea Research 73 citations
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Microplastic: pollution issue and seafood security

This review explains how microplastics enter the marine environment and contaminate seafood, summarizing evidence of their presence in fish and shellfish consumed by humans. The authors highlight seafood safety concerns and call for better regulation and monitoring of microplastic contamination in food systems.

2021 Akuatikisle Jurnal Akuakultur Pesisir dan Pulau-Pulau Kecil
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Microplastics and associated contaminants in the aquatic environment: A review on their ecotoxicological effects, trophic transfer, and potential impacts to human health

This review examines how microplastics and the chemical contaminants they carry move through aquatic food chains from small organisms up to larger predators. Researchers found that microplastics can transfer toxic additives and absorbed pollutants to organisms that ingest them, with potential implications for seafood safety and ultimately human health.

2020 Journal of Hazardous Materials 727 citations
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Microplastics as contaminants in commercially important seafood species

This review summarizes evidence that microplastic ingestion is widespread in commercially important seafood species including mollusks, crustaceans, and fish. Evidence indicates that microplastics can affect physiology, reproductive success, and survival in marine organisms, and may also act as vectors for chemical pollutants. The study highlights the potential for human exposure to microplastics through seafood consumption, though the full health implications remain to be determined.

2017 Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management 266 citations
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Environmental toxicology of microplastic particles on fish: A review

This review summarizes how microplastics harm fish through physical damage, inflammation, oxidative stress, immune suppression, genetic damage, and reproductive disruption. These effects matter for human health because toxic substances accumulate and concentrate as they move up the food chain from fish to the people who eat them.

2024 Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part C Toxicology & Pharmacology 85 citations
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Microplastics in Aquaculture

This review examines how microplastic accumulation in water bodies threatens aquaculture by affecting fish and shellfish growth, reproduction, behavior, and survival, with marine bycatch used as fishmeal identified as a key pathway for microplastic entry into aquaculture feed systems. The authors assess the extent of microplastic invasion into commercial aquaculture operations and the implications for seafood safety.

2024
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Microplastic pollution: An emerging contaminant in aquaculture

This review examines how microplastics are contaminating aquaculture (fish farming) through wastewater, aging equipment, and fish feed, and harming cultured fish through oxidative stress, immune damage, and reproductive problems. Since aquaculture provides a major source of dietary protein worldwide, microplastic contamination in farmed fish is a direct food safety concern. The review recommends better water screening, facility maintenance, and feed quality control to reduce microplastic levels in fish farming.

2023 Aquaculture and Fisheries 81 citations
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Threats of Microplastic Pollution on Fishes and its Implications on Human Health (Review Article)

This review summarizes research from 2010 to 2023 on microplastic contamination in fish and its potential implications for human health. Researchers found that microplastics are ingested by fish across diverse aquatic environments, with particles accumulating in the gastrointestinal tract and other tissues. The study highlights concerns that microplastic-contaminated seafood may represent a pathway for human exposure to both the plastic particles and associated chemical pollutants.

2024 Egyptian Journal of Aquatic Biology and Fisheries 3 citations
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Toxic effects on bioaccumulation, hematological parameters, oxidative stress, immune responses and neurotoxicity in fish exposed to microplastics: A review

This review summarizes how microplastics affect fish health, covering toxic effects on blood, immune system, nervous system, and the buildup of plastics in fish tissues. Microplastics that accumulate in fish can trigger oxidative damage, weaken immune responses, and impair brain-related enzyme activity. Since fish are a major protein source for humans, understanding how microplastics harm fish health is directly relevant to the safety of our food supply.

2021 Journal of Hazardous Materials 452 citations
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Understanding the sources, fate and effects of microplastics in aquatic environments with a focus on risk profiling in aquaculture systems

This review summarizes how microplastics enter aquaculture systems and accumulate in farmed fish, causing toxic effects including immune disruption, oxidative stress, and genetic damage. Since farmed fish are a major food source, the buildup of microplastics in aquaculture poses a direct pathway for these particles to reach human diets.

2024 Reviews in Aquaculture 67 citations
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Impacts of nano/micro-plastics on safety and quality of aquatic food products

This review assessed the impact of nano- and microplastics on the safety and quality of aquatic food products, highlighting how contaminated marine organisms transmit plastic particles and associated toxins to higher trophic levels including humans.

2023 Advances in food and nutrition research 9 citations
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Occurrence and pathways of microplastics, quantification protocol and adverseeffects of microplastics towards freshwater and seawater biota

This review examines the occurrence, pathways, and adverse effects of microplastics on freshwater and marine organisms, highlighting how these particles can enter the food chain through seafood consumption. The study suggests that microplastic ingestion causes health hazards in aquatic animals and points to gaps in understanding how microplastics affect human health along the food supply chain.

2023 Food Research 11 citations