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ClearPlastic additives and microplastics as emerging contaminants: Mechanisms and analytical assessment
Researchers reviewed how chemical additives mixed into plastics during manufacturing — including stabilizers, flame retardants, and plasticizers — can leach out throughout a plastic's lifecycle and pose risks to ecosystems and human health, with microplastics acting as carriers that concentrate and transport these hazardous chemicals.
Plasticisers in the terrestrial environment: sources, occurrence and fate
This review examines the sources, occurrence, and environmental fate of plasticiser chemicals released from plastics into terrestrial environments. Researchers found that both phthalate and newer non-phthalate plasticisers persist in soil, can be taken up by organisms, and may pose emerging risks as industry transitions to replacement chemicals. The study highlights significant knowledge gaps about how these widely used additives behave once released into land-based ecosystems.
Emerging and legacy plasticisers in coastal and estuarine environments: A review
This review examined the occurrence and fate of legacy and emerging plasticizers in coastal and estuarine environments, highlighting the chemical risks posed by these plastic additives beyond the physical effects of microplastics themselves.
Unveiling the Hidden Dangers of Plasticizers: A Call for Immediate Action
This review highlights the hidden health dangers of plasticizers -- chemicals added to plastics found in food containers, toys, cosmetics, and personal care items -- calling for immediate regulatory action given their widespread human exposure and evidence of endocrine disruption and other toxic effects.
Plastic and Microplastic Wastes as Environmental Toxicants
This review covers the environmental accumulation of plastics and microplastics and their toxic chemical additives — including phthalates, flame retardants, bisphenol A, heavy metals, and PCBs — documenting contamination from urban regions to remote ecosystems and food/water supplies.
Environmental and health hazards of chemicals in plastic polymers and products
Researchers reviewed the environmental and health hazards of chemicals in plastic polymers and products, examining the toxicological profiles of monomers, additives, and degradation products that can leach from plastics into food, water, and the environment. The study identifies numerous plastic-associated chemicals with endocrine-disrupting, carcinogenic, or developmental toxicity potential and calls for more comprehensive safety testing of plastic formulations.
Assessment of endocrine-disrupting activities of alternative chemicals for bis(2-ethylhexyl)phthalate
Researchers assessed the endocrine-disrupting potential of alternative plasticizers used to replace the commonly restricted DEHP (bis(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate), finding that several substitutes also displayed hormonal activity. The results raise concerns that some replacement plasticizers used in consumer plastics may carry similar health risks as the chemicals they were designed to replace.
Microplastic in Water System: A Review of Their Impact on Environment, Current Perspective and Future Direction
This review highlights hazardous chemicals associated with micro- and nanoplastics, including plastic additives and absorbed environmental pollutants, and their potential health risks after entering the food chain. It frames microplastics as markers of a new geological era and calls for improved monitoring and regulation of plastic-associated toxicants.
Microplastic in Water System: A Review of Their Impact on Environment, Current Perspective and Future Direction
This review highlights hazardous chemicals associated with micro- and nanoplastics, including plastic additives and absorbed environmental pollutants, and their potential health risks after entering the food chain. It frames microplastics as markers of a new geological era and calls for improved monitoring and regulation of plastic-associated toxicants.
Understanding the leaching of plastic additives and subsequent risks to ecosystems
This review explains how chemical additives in plastics -- including plasticizers, flame retardants, and stabilizers -- can leach out of microplastics into the environment and potentially into the human body. Some of these additives, such as phthalates and brominated flame retardants, are persistent, build up in living tissue, and are linked to hormone disruption and other health effects. The authors note that our understanding of the full toxicity risk from leaching plastic additives is still limited.
Prevalence and Impact of Emerging Chemical Contaminants in the Life Style Products on Human Health
This review examines emerging chemical contaminants found in everyday consumer products, including plasticizers, flame retardants, and microplastics, assessing their prevalence and potential health risks from chronic low-level exposure.
Emerging microextraction platforms for enhanced phthalic acid esters monitoring in food
Researchers reviewed recent advances in microextraction techniques for detecting phthalate plasticizers — endocrine-disrupting chemicals that leach from plastics into food — highlighting progress in green solvents and functional materials while flagging persistent challenges in reproducibility across complex food matrices and the need for better standardization.
Plasticisers: A Potential Reproductive-toxicant for Humans
This review examines plasticizers, particularly phthalates and bisphenols, as reproductive toxicants in humans, summarizing evidence that these chemicals leach from plastics and disrupt endocrine function, affecting fertility and fetal development. The authors highlight the need for stricter regulation given widespread human exposure through food packaging, personal care products, and household items.
Comprehensive Insight from Phthalates Occurrence: From Health Outcomes to Emerging Analytical Approaches
This review summarizes the widespread occurrence of phthalates, chemicals commonly used as plasticizers in plastic products, and their potential health effects including endocrine disruption and reproductive harm. The study also surveys emerging analytical methods for detecting phthalates in food, water, and biological samples, highlighting the challenge of daily human exposure through consumer products.
Microplastics: research landscape, challenges, and remediation
This review synthesizes research on microplastic pollution sources, polymer types, and remediation strategies, identifying polyethylene, polystyrene, polypropylene, polyethylene terephthalate, and polyvinyl chloride as the most prevalent polymers and highlighting chemical additives such as phthalates as compounding environmental hazards.
Unpacking Phthalates from Obscurity in the Environment
This review traces how advances in analytical chemistry have brought phthalates, a group of plastic additives, from relative obscurity to recognition as widespread environmental contaminants. Phthalates leach easily from plastic products because they are not chemically bound to the polymer, and they are now categorized as endocrine-disrupting chemicals with potential links to organ damage. The study discusses the evolving methods for detecting phthalates in complex environmental and biological samples.
Environmental occurrence and ecotoxicological risks of plastic leachates in aquatic and terrestrial environments
This review examines how chemical additives that leach out of plastics -- including hormone disruptors like BPA and phthalates -- affect organisms in both water and land environments. The chemicals' harmful effects depend on environmental conditions like temperature and UV exposure, which influence how much leaches out and how easily organisms absorb it. The findings highlight that the danger of plastic pollution extends beyond the physical particles to the toxic chemicals they release.
Microplastic as a Global Source of Environmental Pollution
This review documents widespread accumulation of microplastics in oceans, freshwater, soils, food, and agrochemicals, noting that the toxic additives in plastics — including flame retardants and plasticizers — pose poorly understood risks to human health and marine wildlife. Uncontrolled plastic production has created a global pollution crisis extending even to deep ocean sediments.
Phthalates and Their Impacts on Human Health
This review examines phthalates, chemicals widely used to make plastics flexible, and their harmful effects on human health as endocrine disruptors. Chronic exposure to phthalates has been linked to reproductive problems, developmental issues in children, and complications during pregnancy. Since phthalates are common additives in microplastics, understanding their toxicity is essential for assessing the full health risk of microplastic exposure.
Micro(nano)plastics, an emerging health problem
This review frames micro- and nanoplastics as an emerging human health problem, synthesizing evidence of exposure routes, organ-level accumulation, and biological effects, and calling for updated regulatory frameworks to address this novel class of environmental contaminants.
Occurrence and effects of plastic additives on marine environments and organisms: A review
This review examines chemical additives found in plastics, such as flame retardants, phthalates, and bisphenol A, and how they leach into the marine environment as plastics accumulate and fragment. Researchers summarize evidence showing that these additives have been detected in marine water, sediment, and organisms, and can transfer from ingested plastic into animal tissues. The findings highlight that the chemical risk from plastic additives deserves as much attention as the physical impacts of microplastic particles themselves.
Endocrine disrupting chemicals in indoor dust: A review of temporal and spatial trends, and human exposure
This review examines endocrine-disrupting chemicals found in indoor house dust, including phthalates, flame retardants, bisphenols, and PFAS, many of which come from plastic products. Even though some of these chemicals have been banned, they are still widely detected in dust, while their replacement chemicals are showing up at increasing levels. The findings are relevant to microplastic concerns because many of these hormone-disrupting chemicals are the same additives found in plastics that leach out as microplastics break down.
The Problem of Phthalate Occurrence in Aquatic Environment
This review surveys phthalate contamination in aquatic environments, covering analytical quantification methods, toxicity data, and sources of phthalate pollution. It highlights phthalates as plastic additives that leach into water from plastic products, posing risks to aquatic organisms and human health.
Les additifs issus des microplastiques : caractérisation, lixiviation et impacts
This review characterizes plastic additives leaching from microplastics into the environment, examining their physicochemical properties, leaching behavior, and biological impacts, and surveying the growing evidence that many plastic additives are toxic to organisms including marine wildlife and humans.