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ClearMicroplastics and Their Impact on Human Health
This review summarized current research on microplastic distribution in the environment, human exposure pathways, toxicological effects, and the emerging legal frameworks designed to address microplastic pollution. Growing evidence links microplastic exposure to a range of health concerns, though regulatory responses are still developing.
Potential Health Impact of Microplastics: A Review of Environmental Distribution, Human Exposure, and Toxic Effects
This review summarizes existing research on how microplastics are found throughout the environment and in human samples, entering the body through food, air, and skin contact. Lab studies in cells and animals show microplastics can cause oxidative stress, DNA damage, immune reactions, brain toxicity, and reproductive harm, and early human health data links microplastic exposure to several chronic diseases.
Multiple Effects, Pathways, and Potential Health Risks from Environmental Microplastic Exposure
This review synthesizes nearly two decades of research on the multiple pathways through which environmental microplastics affect human and ecological health, including chemical toxicity, physical impacts, and potential roles as carriers of pathogens and contaminants.
Microplastics in Environmental Setting: A Review on Sources, Exposure Routes and Potential Toxicities on Human Health
This review examines microplastics in environmental settings, synthesizing current knowledge on sources, distribution across terrestrial and aquatic compartments, fate processes, and ecological consequences. The authors identify priority research areas needed to address remaining uncertainties in microplastic risk assessment.
Microplastics toxicity: Classification, sources, exposure routes, and experiments
This review summarized the classification, sources, exposure routes, and toxicological effects of microplastics across environmental matrices and biological systems. The authors synthesized evidence from multiple exposure experiments to assess human health risks from ingestion, inhalation, and dermal contact with common plastic polymers.
Microplastics and Human Health: A Comprehensive Review on Exposure Pathways, Toxicity, and Emerging Risks
This comprehensive review examines microplastic exposure pathways in humans, methods of detection, and the potential toxic effects on various biological systems. The study highlights growing evidence that microplastics can enter the body through ingestion, inhalation, and dermal contact, and may affect multiple organ systems, though significant uncertainties remain about long-term health outcomes.
Environmental pollution by microplastics and its consequences on human health
This narrative review examines how plastics discarded in the environment fragment into microplastics through environmental and biological stresses, accumulate across terrestrial and marine ecosystems, and enter human bodies primarily through seafood, drinking water, and air inhalation, summarizing documented toxicological consequences for human health based on literature published from 2017 to 2022.
A review of microplastics in the aquatic environmental: distribution, transport, ecotoxicology, and toxicological mechanisms
This review examines how microplastics are distributed, transported, and accumulate throughout aquatic environments, and the toxicological effects they have on aquatic organisms. The study suggests that microplastics can affect human health through the food chain, but notes that understanding of combined toxicity mechanisms remains very limited. The authors identify significant knowledge gaps and call for more systematic environmental risk assessments across multiple species.
Micro-plastics: An invisible danger to human health
This review examined microplastics as invisible but pervasive threats to human health, summarizing exposure routes via air, water, and food, and reviewing evidence from animal studies linking microplastic exposure to inflammation, oxidative stress, endocrine disruption, and reproductive harm, while calling for urgent human epidemiological research.
Exposure routes of microplastics (MPs) to humans and possible risks of MPs to human health from food and the environment: a short review
This review summarizes how microplastics reach humans through food, water, and air, and discusses their potential health effects. Researchers found that seafood, drinking water, and airborne dust are the primary exposure routes, with microplastics carrying additional chemical contaminants that may amplify their harm. The study emphasizes the need for more research into the long-term health consequences of chronic microplastic exposure in humans.
Impact of Microplastics on Human health: Time for us to get attentive- before it’s too late
This paper reviewed the growing evidence on microplastic impacts on human health, covering ingestion, inhalation, and dermal exposure routes, and the potential for microplastics to cause inflammation, oxidative stress, and endocrine disruption. The authors argue the problem demands urgent regulatory attention.
Origin, environmental presence and health effects of microplastics
This review synthesizes current knowledge on the origins, environmental distribution, and health effects of microplastics, covering exposure pathways (ingestion, inhalation, dermal contact) and associated health risks including oxidative stress, inflammation, metabolic disruption, neurotoxicity, reproductive toxicity, and potential carcinogenicity.
Microplastic exposure and human health: an integrative toxicological perspective
This review takes an integrative toxicological perspective on how microplastic exposure may affect human health, examining exposure routes through food, water, and air. Researchers summarize evidence that microplastics' small size, durability, and surface reactivity enable them to adsorb heavy metals, form biofilms, and enter food chains. The study highlights that while evidence of harm is growing, significant gaps remain in understanding the long-term health implications of chronic microplastic exposure.
The Widespread Environmental and Health Effects of Microplastics Pollution Worldwide
This review summarized global evidence on microplastic pollution sources, environmental distribution, and health effects, concluding that microplastics derived from synthetic textiles, personal care products, and plastic degradation are now ubiquitous in air, water, soil, and food, and that regulatory action is needed to curb escalating contamination.
Emerging Risk of Microplastics on Health, Agriculture and Environment
This review examines the emerging risks that microplastics pose to human health, agriculture, and ecosystems, covering exposure routes from food, water, and air. Researchers highlighted concerning findings such as the detection of microplastics in human placentas and their potential to carry harmful chemicals into the body. The study emphasizes that microplastic contamination is a growing global concern that requires coordinated research and policy responses across multiple sectors.
Microplastics: A Looming Threat to Human Life and Ecosystem
This review described microplastics as a pervasive environmental and health threat, covering sources, exposure pathways—ingestion, inhalation, and skin contact—and potential biological effects. The authors summarized evidence of microplastic accumulation in human tissues and called for coordinated international action to reduce plastic production and environmental release.
Microplastics: A Looming Threat to Human Life and Ecosystem
This review described microplastics as a pervasive environmental and health threat, covering sources, exposure pathways—ingestion, inhalation, and skin contact—and potential biological effects. The authors summarized evidence of microplastic accumulation in human tissues and called for coordinated international action to reduce plastic production and environmental release.
Research progress on the sources and toxicology of micro (nano) plastics in environment
This review covers sources, distribution, and toxicity of micro- and nanoplastics across soil, water, and air, including effects on organisms and human health. It provides a comprehensive overview of the state of knowledge on environmental microplastic contamination and its consequences.
Microplastics in the Environment
This review surveys global evidence for microplastic contamination in environmental and human samples, covering exposure through ingestion, inhalation, and skin contact, and examining known and potential health risks. The authors note that despite frequent detection, the causal evidence linking microplastic exposure to specific human health outcomes remains limited, calling for more rigorous toxicological and epidemiological research.
Microplastics in Aquatic Ecosystems: A Global Review of Distribution, Ecotoxicological Impacts, and Human Health Risks
This global review summarizes how microplastics are distributed across freshwater, marine, and polar environments, and examines their ecological and human health impacts. People are exposed through contaminated seafood, water, and air, and research links microplastic exposure to oxidative stress, inflammation, hormone disruption, and possible genetic effects at the cellular level.
Microplastics And Nanoplastics: Environmental Sources, Human Exposure Pathways, And Potential Health Impacts
This systematic review maps out the many ways microplastics and nanoplastics enter the human body, including through food, water, air, and everyday products. The researchers found these tiny particles are now present in nearly every environment, from oceans to our homes. The review highlights growing concerns about what this constant low-level exposure might mean for our long-term health.
Microplastics: Current Status in the Environment and Human Health Risks: A Comprehensive Review
This comprehensive review covers the sources, environmental distribution, food chain entry, and human health risks of microplastics, with particular attention to their role as vectors for chemical pollutants and pathogens. It highlights regulatory gaps and emerging mitigation approaches across terrestrial, aquatic, and atmospheric systems.
Microplastics as Emerging Environmental Pollutants: Implications for Ecosystems and Human Health
This comprehensive review documents how microplastics have spread to every environmental compartment on Earth — from ocean floors to mountain air — and synthesizes evidence of harm across species and ecosystems, including physical injury, hormonal disruption, reproductive damage, and chemical toxicity. For humans, microplastics have now been detected in blood, lung tissue, and the placenta, with exposure occurring through food, water, and air. While definitive proof of human disease causation is still accumulating, the review argues the breadth of biological impacts already documented justifies urgent action.
Plastic Pollution and Its Effects on Human Health
This review examined how plastics enter the environment through poor disposal and fragmentation, then infiltrate food chains and human bodies via ingestion, inhalation, and dermal contact. The authors summarized health risks from both microplastic particles and their associated chemical additives, calling for stronger global policy responses.