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Article Tier 2

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.

2024 1 citations
Review Tier 2

Microplastics in Food: Literature Review

This literature review analyzed data on microplastic presence across various food groups, summarizing findings on the occurrence, concentrations, and polymer types of microplastics detected in seafood, fresh produce, processed foods, and beverages.

2025 Open Science Framework
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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.

2025 Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety 2 citations
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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.

2024 Repository of the Faculty of Food Technology Osijek
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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.

2023 The Science of The Total Environment 33 citations
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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.

2025 Zaguan (University of Zaragoza Repository)
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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.

2025 Burleigh Dodds series in agricultural science
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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.

2022 TrAC Trends in Analytical Chemistry 154 citations
Article Tier 2

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.

2024 1 citations
Systematic Review Tier 1

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.

2021 Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry 177 citations
Article Tier 2

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.

2025 Food Chemistry 13 citations
Article Tier 2

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.

2024 1 citations
Article Tier 2

A review on micro and nano plastics: A rising concern as food contaminants

This review examined micro- and nanoplastics (MNPs) as rising food contaminants, reporting concentrations up to 1.7 million particles/km² in some ocean regions and documenting how MNPs enter food chains through water, seafood, packaging, and food processing—posing risks to food safety and human health.

2025 International Journal of Applied Research
Review Tier 2

[Review of Methods and Risk Assessment of Microplastics from Food Sources].

This review examines methods for detecting and assessing the risks of microplastic contamination in food, covering exposure pathways from raw materials through processing and packaging. Researchers summarized analytical techniques for identifying microplastics in food products and evaluated approaches for assessing human health risks from dietary exposure. The study emphasizes the need for standardized detection methods and more comprehensive risk assessment frameworks for food-borne microplastics.

2025 PubMed 1 citations
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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.

2021 The Science of The Total Environment 139 citations
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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.

2023 Advances in food and nutrition research 12 citations
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Micro(nano)plastics in commercial foods: A review of their characterization and potential hazards to human health

This review compiles evidence of micro- and nanoplastic contamination found in commercial food products including seafood, beverages, salt, sugar, and honey. Researchers summarize the various laboratory techniques used to isolate, identify, and quantify these particles in food samples. The study highlights that dietary intake is a major route of human microplastic exposure and calls for standardized detection methods to better assess the scope of contamination across the food supply.

2023 Environmental Research 25 citations
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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.

2019 Food Additives & Contaminants Part A 592 citations
Article Tier 2

Microplastics and nanoplastics in food, water, and beverages, part II. Methods

This methods-focused review summarized analytical techniques for detecting and characterizing microplastics and nanoplastics in food, water, and beverages, covering sample preparation, isolation, and polymer identification approaches. The authors concluded that no single method captures all relevant particle information and that standardization across food matrices remains an unmet need.

2022 TrAC Trends in Analytical Chemistry 68 citations
Article Tier 2

Source, migration path and pollution of microplastics and nano-plastics in food

This review traced the sources, migration pathways, and food contamination status of microplastics and nanoplastics, covering their entry into food chains through packaging, processing, environmental pollution, and water sources—and discussing potential accumulation in the human body and associated health risks.

2025 Advances in Food Science and Human Nutrition
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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.

2023 Current Nutrition & Food Science 7 citations
Article Tier 2

Microplastics in Food Products

This chapter reviews microplastic contamination in food products, tracing the pathways by which plastic particles enter the food supply from environmental contamination, packaging leaching, and food processing. The authors discuss health concerns associated with dietary microplastic exposure and the regulatory landscape around food safety.

2024
Article Tier 2

Occurrence of meso/micro/nano plastics and plastic additives in food from food packaging.

This chapter reviewed the contamination of food by plastics from packaging materials, examining migration mechanisms for meso-, micro-, and nano-plastics and plastic additives, and discussing how food type, packaging material, and processing conditions influence contamination levels under current regulatory frameworks.

2023 Advances in food and nutrition research
Article Tier 2

Microplastics in food: scoping review on health effects, occurrence, and human exposure

This review synthesizes evidence on microplastic occurrence in a broad range of food types beyond fish and shellfish, estimated human dietary exposure, and potential health effects including toxicity from particles themselves, leached monomers, chemical additives, and co-contaminants, identifying major research gaps in non-marine food categories.

2022 Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)