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ClearFood Plants and Environmental Contamination: An Update
This review examines how food plants absorb contaminants from polluted environments, including heavy metals, pesticides, and microplastics. Microplastics have been found in the roots, leaves, and fruits of food crops, creating a direct pathway for human exposure through diet. The authors discuss both traditional and new technologies for reducing contamination in food production, highlighting the need for soil and water monitoring to ensure food safety.
Contaminants in Agriculture and Environment: Health Risks and Remediation
This book chapter reviewed contaminants in agricultural environments and their health risks, covering heavy metals, pesticides, and emerging pollutants including microplastics, and summarizing remediation strategies for both soil and crop systems. The authors discuss the intersection of food security and environmental contamination in modern agricultural production systems.
Agricultural Environmental Pollution, Risk Assessment, and Control
This book chapter reviews the growing burden of agricultural environmental pollution — from pesticide residues to microplastics and heavy metals — and evaluates risk assessment frameworks and control strategies for protecting soil health and food safety.
Perspective Chapter: Heavy Metals-Mediated Chemical Contamination in Foods, Associated Health Risks, and Remediation Techniques
This review examines heavy metal contamination in food from environmental sources like mining, industrial discharge, and agricultural chemicals. While focused on metals rather than microplastics, the pathways described overlap significantly with how microplastics enter the food chain through contaminated soil, water, and air. The authors discuss health risks and remediation techniques that may also be relevant to addressing co-contamination by microplastics and heavy metals.
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.
Food Contaminants: A Scoping Review of Sources, Toxicity, Pathophysiological Insights, and Mitigation Strategies
This scoping review examines various food contaminants including microplastics, heavy metals, pesticides, and mycotoxins, covering their sources, toxicity, and strategies for mitigation. Researchers synthesized evidence on how these contaminants enter the food supply and their potential effects on human health. The study highlights the growing concern around microplastics as a food contaminant and calls for integrated approaches to food safety monitoring.
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.
Distribution, Prevention, and Control of Emerging Food Contamination
This review examined the distribution, prevention, and control of emerging food contaminants including microplastics, nanoplastics, and chemical additives, summarizing regulatory frameworks and analytical detection methods across food categories.
Microplastic Pollution
This review summarizes the current state of microplastic pollution across water, soil, air, and food, highlighting their ability to carry other toxins like heavy metals and PCBs. The authors note that microplastics accumulate in the food web, moving from the environment into agricultural products and eventually into the human body. The review emphasizes that a unified, comprehensive approach to studying microplastics across all environmental sources is needed to fully understand the health risks.
Emerging and Persistent Food Contaminants: A Decade Review of Their Health Risks and Mitigation Strategies
This decade-long narrative review synthesized evidence on emerging and persistent food contaminants including heavy metals, pesticides, mycotoxins, microplastics, pharmaceuticals, and endocrine-disrupting chemicals. Microplastics emerged as a growing concern across the food chain, with evidence accumulating for systemic health effects via ingestion of contaminated food and water.
Environmental Contamination and Food Chain Bioaccumulation
This review examines how environmental contaminants, including heavy metals, persistent organic pollutants, and emerging pollutants like micro- and nanoplastics, accumulate through food chains via bioaccumulation and biomagnification. Researchers describe the diverse pathways by which these contaminants enter ecosystems from agricultural runoff, industrial discharge, and waste disposal. The study underscores that continuous human exposure to bioaccumulated toxins may contribute to chronic health concerns.
Microplastics in the Food Chain
This review examines how microplastics enter the food chain through water, soil, and air contamination during agricultural production, post-harvest handling, processing, and packaging, with endocrine-disrupting chemicals like bisphenols and phthalates posing significant health risks.
Chemical safety of food products: problems and solutions (literature review)
This literature review examines chemical safety challenges in food production and processing, covering contamination by pesticides, heavy metals, mycotoxins, and emerging pollutants including microplastics, and discussing regulatory and technological solutions.
Microplastics in Food Environment: Sources, Consequences and Control Strategies
This review examines how microplastics enter the food supply — through contaminated feed, raw ingredients, and food processing — and can move up the food chain through a process called trophic transfer, concentrating pollutants as they go. The authors argue that monitoring and removal strategies are urgently needed across the entire food supply chain to protect both food security and human health.
Microplastic contamination in the agricultural soil—mitigation strategies, heavy metals contamination, and impact on human health: a review
This review examines how microplastics contaminate agricultural soil through plastic mulch, irrigation water, and fertilizers, then alter soil chemistry, harm beneficial microorganisms, and reduce crop productivity. The authors highlight that microplastics can accumulate in crops and enter the human food chain, posing risks to food safety and human health, particularly through daily food and water consumption.
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.
Environmental Contaminants in Fish Products: Food Safety Issues and Remediation Strategies
This review provides an overview of environmental contaminants found in fish products, including heavy metals, persistent organic pollutants, and microplastics, and their risks to human health through seafood consumption. The combined presence of multiple contaminants in fish can create compounding toxic effects that are greater than any single pollutant alone. The authors recommend better monitoring and cleanup strategies, including bioremediation, to protect both marine ecosystems and the people who eat seafood.
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.
Toxicological impacts and mitigation strategies of food contaminants: a global perspective and comprehensive narrative review
This comprehensive review examines the toxicological impacts of food contaminants, including heavy metals, mycotoxins, pesticides, and microplastics, from a global health perspective. Researchers synthesized evidence on the cellular and molecular mechanisms of harm caused by these contaminants and assessed current monitoring and mitigation strategies. The study calls for stronger international coordination to address the growing complexity of food safety challenges.
Sources, effects and present perspectives of heavy metals contamination: soil, plants and human food chain
This review summarizes how heavy metals like lead, cadmium, and arsenic contaminate soil, get absorbed by crops, and enter the human food chain. Heavy metals at high levels can damage plant growth and accumulate in food at concentrations unsafe for human consumption. This is relevant to microplastics research because microplastics in soil can bind and transport heavy metals, potentially increasing the amount that ends up in the food we eat.
The effects of agriculture's environmental externalities on food systems
This review examined how agriculture's environmental externalities — including pesticide and fertilizer pollution — affect food systems by degrading the ecosystems that food production depends on. Agricultural plastic use is also addressed as a growing source of microplastic contamination in soils and waterways.
[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.
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.
Assessment of soil microplastics: An overview on toxicity, effects on heavy metals adsorption, solid-phase extraction, and detection techniques
This review examined how microplastics in soil enter the food chain and pose human health risks, with particular attention to their role as carriers for heavy metals. Agricultural practices like plastic mulching and sewage sludge application were identified as major sources of soil MP contamination.