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Addressing the current fettle of bioaccumulation of microplastics on the subsequent perspective of the aquatic ecosystem and health implications of commercial species: a review

This review examined evidence for microplastic bioaccumulation in aquatic animals globally, discussing risks to aquatic health, ecosystem function, and the blue economy from widespread plastic particle uptake. The review found bioaccumulation documented across multiple taxa and highlighted food safety implications for humans consuming aquatic species.

2024 Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
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The Challenge of Microplastics in Aquatic Ecosystem: A Review of Current Consensus and Future Trends of the Effect on the Fish

This review synthesizes research on how microplastics affect aquatic ecosystems, covering ingestion by marine animals, trophic transfer up the food chain, and the chemicals that microplastics carry. The findings highlight that microplastic contamination is now widespread enough to threaten marine biodiversity and food security for populations that rely on seafood.

2023 BENTHAM SCIENCE PUBLISHERS eBooks
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Microplastic in the Aquatic Ecosystem and Human Health Implications

This review examines the sources, distribution, and pathways of microplastics in aquatic ecosystems, summarizing current evidence on how MPs enter the food chain, accumulate in aquatic fauna, and pose risks to both ecosystem health and human health through seafood consumption.

2022 5 citations
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Plastic Peril

This review examines the skyrocketing global plastic production and the resulting accumulation of microplastics that adversely affect terrestrial and aquatic organisms through bioaccumulation and biomagnification. The authors assess evidence for microplastic effects across trophic levels including in edible aquatic organisms, highlighting the food chain risks from plastic pollution.

2024
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Trophic Transfer and Accumulation of Microplastics in Freshwater Ecosystem: Risk to Food Security and Human Health

This review examined the trophic transfer and accumulation of microplastics through freshwater food chains, highlighting the risks to food security and human health as plastic particles biomagnify from lower to higher trophic levels.

2022 International Journal of Ecology 30 citations
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Impact of Microplastics on AquaticOrganisms and Human Health: A Review

This review examines how microplastics from degraded plastic debris accumulate in aquatic environments, are ingested by organisms at all levels of the food chain, and may transfer to humans through seafood. The evidence warrants concern about microplastic contamination as an emerging public health issue.

2020 RePEc: Research Papers in Economics 6 citations
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Micro-Nano Plastics in Aquatic Environments: Associated Health Impacts and Mitigation Strategies

This review examines how micro- and nanoplastics in aquatic environments are biologically transferred up the food chain, covering the factors that influence particle bioavailability, accumulation in organisms, and trophic transfer — with implications for both aquatic ecosystem health and human dietary exposure.

2025
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Toxicological review of micro- and nano-plastics in aquatic environments: Risks to ecosystems, food web dynamics and human health.

This review synthesized evidence on the toxicological effects of micro- and nanoplastics in aquatic ecosystems, covering risks to individual organisms, disruptions to food web dynamics, and pathways through which plastic exposure poses risks to human health via seafood consumption.

2024 Ecotoxicology and environmental safety
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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.

2022 Environmental Science Processes & Impacts 28 citations
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The Effects of Microplastics on the Human Food Chain and Freshwater Ecosystem

This review examines how microplastic pollution affects freshwater ecosystems and the human food chain, tracing the transfer of MPs from contaminated water through aquatic organisms to human consumers and evaluating the cumulative health risks of dietary plastic exposure.

2025
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A global perspective on microplastic bioaccumulation in marine organisms

This systematic review examines microplastic contamination in marine organisms around the world, documenting how plastics of various sizes and types build up in seafood species. Since many of these species end up on our plates, the findings raise important questions about how much microplastic humans may be consuming through seafood.

2023 Ecological Indicators 107 citations
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The Impact of Microplastic Bioaccumulation on Marine Ecosystems

This review examined the bioaccumulation of microplastics in marine ecosystems, tracing MP uptake from zooplankton to fish to marine mammals and discussing the ecological disruptions caused by plastic accumulation across food webs. It called for integrated solutions addressing MP pollution at both the source and ecosystem levels.

2024 Theoretical and Natural Science
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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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Exploring bioaccumulation patterns and ecological risks of microplastics in aquatic ecosystems

This review comprehensively examined microplastic bioaccumulation and ecological risk in aquatic ecosystems, covering sources, environmental pathways, and the risks microplastics pose to organisms across trophic levels in rivers, lakes, and marine environments.

2025
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Microplastic in freshwater ecosystem: bioaccumulation, trophic transfer, and biomagnification

This review synthesizes evidence on microplastic bioaccumulation and trophic transfer in freshwater ecosystems, finding that while ingestion by freshwater organisms is well-documented, biomagnification through food chains remains poorly understood and requires further investigation.

2022 Environmental Science and Pollution Research 91 citations
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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 Pollution: An Intending Threat for Aquatic Ecosystem Sustenance

This review summarizes sources, distribution, and ecological impacts of microplastics in aquatic environments, highlighting how ingestion by fish and shellfish and associated chemical toxicity pose growing threats to aquatic ecosystem health.

2023 International Journal of Environmental Sciences & Natural Resources
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Plastic Pollution is a Serious Menace to Ecosystem Health with Special Reference to Aquatic Ecosystems and its Associated Challenges, Opportunities, and Mitigations

This review examines how plastic pollution, including microplastics, threatens aquatic ecosystem health, affecting fish, birds, and mammals through ingestion, entanglement, and chemical exposure. Researchers highlighted that our understanding of microplastic dynamics — their release, retention, accumulation, and transfer across ecosystems — remains limited. The study calls for more research into the long-term ecological consequences of microplastic contamination in aquatic environments.

2024 3 citations
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Effects of Microplastic Exposure on Different Speciesin Ecosystem

This review examines the ecotoxicological effects of microplastic exposure on organisms across aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems, covering bioaccumulation and trophic transfer in fish, mollusks, and other species. The authors emphasize that microplastics originating from industrial processes and plastic waste pose long-term ecosystem-wide threats.

2025 Journal of Research in Humanities and Social Science
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Occurrence, Bioaccumulation, and Risk Assessment of Microplastics in the Aquatic Environment: A Review

This review summarizes current knowledge on microplastic occurrence, bioaccumulation, and health risks in aquatic environments worldwide. Microplastics can absorb other pollutants and transfer them through the food chain, accumulating in organisms at higher levels. The authors call for standardized risk assessment methods and better monitoring to understand the full scope of microplastic threats to ecosystems and human health.

2023 Water 46 citations
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Impact of Microplastics on Aquatic Organisms and Human Health: A Review

This review examined the impacts of microplastics on aquatic organisms and human health, highlighting that microplastic size ranges mimic prey sizes ingested by aquatic organisms and that contaminated commercially important fish species transfer microplastics to human consumers. The authors synthesised evidence on ingestion pathways, toxicological effects, and human dietary exposure routes.

2020 International Journal of Environmental Sciences & Natural Resources 17 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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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
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Impacts of Microplastics as Contaminants in Freshwater Ecosystems and Human Food Chain

This review examines the impacts of microplastics on freshwater ecosystems and human food chains, tracing how plastic particles enter rivers and lakes, accumulate in fish and invertebrates, and transfer to humans through consumption of contaminated freshwater species.

2025