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ClearFoodborne pathogens in the plastisphere: Can microplastics in the food chain threaten microbial food safety?
This review examines whether microplastics in the food chain can serve as carriers for dangerous foodborne bacteria, potentially threatening food safety. Researchers found that pathogenic bacteria can colonize microplastic surfaces and that these "plastisphere" communities may survive food processing steps that would normally eliminate them. The study raises concerns that microplastic contamination in food and water could introduce a new route for foodborne illness transmission.
Foodborne pathogens in the plastisphere: Can microplastics in the food chain threaten microbial food safety?
This review examines the potential for microplastics to act as vectors for foodborne pathogens in the food chain, synthesizing current evidence on pathogen attachment to the plastisphere, the effects of microplastics on bacterial virulence and evolution, and the implications for simultaneous uptake of microplastics and pathogens in the human gut.
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.
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.
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.
Oceanic Hitchhikers – Assessing Pathogen Risks from Marine Microplastic
This review examines the emerging concern that microplastics in the ocean could serve as vehicles for transporting harmful bacteria, particularly into shellfish destined for human consumption. Researchers synthesized current knowledge about the distinct microbial communities that form on plastic debris and how microplastics are taken up by bivalves like mussels and oysters. The study highlights significant knowledge gaps around whether microplastic-associated pathogens represent a meaningful food safety risk.
Health implications of microplastic exposure and sustainable solutions
This review explores the various pathways by which microplastics contaminate aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems through human activities, and how they accumulate in the food chain. Researchers summarize the health implications of microplastic exposure through mechanisms like oxidative stress, gut microbiome disruption, and inflammation. The study emphasizes the need for standardized detection methods and stronger regulatory frameworks to address microplastic contamination in the human food supply.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Microplastics in human food chains: Food becoming a threat to health safety
This review traces how microplastics enter the human food chain through both animal and plant sources, food packaging, and beverages. Once consumed, microplastics can accumulate in tissues and release harmful chemicals like plasticizers and heavy metals inside the body. The study emphasizes that food has become a major exposure pathway for microplastics and calls for stricter regulation of plastic use in food production and packaging.
Marine microplastic debris: An emerging issue for food security, food safety and human health
This review examines the evidence for microplastic contamination in seafood and discusses what it means for food security and human health. Researchers found that microplastics have been detected in commercially important fish and shellfish species worldwide, but the actual health risks to humans from consuming contaminated seafood remain poorly understood. The study identifies critical knowledge gaps and calls for standardized methods to better assess the dietary exposure and potential toxicity of microplastics.
Formation of biofilms on microplastics in the food chain and their role as vectors of transfer of foodborne pathogens (literature review, part 2)
This literature review (Part 2 of a series) examines how biofilms formed on micro- and nanoplastic surfaces in the food chain can serve as vectors for pathogenic bacteria, their toxins, and antibiotic resistance genes — potentially increasing foodborne disease risk beyond what bare microplastic particles would cause.
Plastics and Microplastics as Vectors for Bacteria and Human Pathogens
This study reviewed how marine plastic debris serves as a surface for bacterial colonization, including human pathogens, and examined the novel communities forming on plastic surfaces. The research raises public health concerns about microplastics acting as rafts that transport harmful bacteria to new locations, including to seafood and coastal recreational areas.
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.
Micro and Nano Plastics in the Food Chain: Challenges, Risks, and Future Directions
This review explores the presence of micro- and nanoplastics across the food chain, examining sources including packaging fragmentation and synthetic fiber shedding and assessing distribution from soil and water through crop plants, seafood, and processed foods to human consumers. The authors discuss health risks and the challenges of developing standardized analysis and regulatory standards for food-chain microplastic exposures.
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.
Microplastics supply contaminants in food chain: non-negligible threat to health safety
This review examines how microplastics in the food chain can carry and concentrate organic pollutants like pesticides and industrial chemicals, making them more dangerous together than either would be alone. Microplastics accumulate on the surfaces of fruits and vegetables and can build up through the food web. The combined effect of microplastics and the toxic chemicals they carry poses a growing but still poorly understood threat to food safety and human health.
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.
Microplastic profusion in food and drinking water: are microplastics becoming a macroproblem?
This review examined the prevalence of microplastics in food and drinking water, assessing trophic transfer along the food web and evaluating whether microplastic contamination in human dietary sources constitutes a growing public health concern.
Microplastics in the Food Chain
This review summarized current knowledge about microplastics in the food chain, from their origins in packaging and industrial products to their presence in seafood and other food items. Researchers noted that while marine organisms have been the primary focus of study, much less is known about microplastic contamination in other foods. The study concludes that the issue remains insufficiently examined and warrants more attention to protect public health.
The risks of marine micro/nano-plastics on seafood safety and human health
This review examined the risks of marine micro- and nanoplastics to seafood safety and human health, detailing how plastic particles are ingested by marine organisms and transferred through the food chain to consumers.