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ClearParticulate Plastics and Human Health
This book chapter reviews the pathways through which particulate plastics expose humans to toxic chemicals — including plastic additives and adsorbed environmental pollutants — via diet, drinking water, and inhalation. It summarizes evidence that microplastics and their associated contaminants accumulate through food chains and reach human tissues.
Micro(Nano)Plastics as Carriers of Toxic Agents and Their Impact on Human Health
This review compiles evidence on how micro- and nanoplastics act as carriers of potentially toxic agents and enter the human body through inhalation, ingestion, and dermal absorption. Evidence indicates that continuous exposure to these particles can lead to bioaccumulation and negative health alterations, with recent research detecting microplastics even in human placental tissue.
Microplastics in humans: Current evidence of presence and their role in organ toxicity
This comprehensive review examined how microplastics enter the human body through ingestion, inhalation, dermal absorption, and maternal-fetal transfer, summarizing documented evidence of MP presence and toxic effects across multiple organs.
Microplastic: Its Effect on Human Health
This review outlines how microplastics from single-use packaging, bottles, and consumer goods enter the food chain through ingestion and inhalation, serving as carriers for toxic chemical additives and adsorbed pollutants that pose risks to human health.
Plastic and Human Health: A Micro Issue?
This review evaluates the potential human health impacts of microplastic exposure through food and air, drawing on evidence from particle toxicology and related fields. Researchers note that if inhaled or ingested, microplastics could accumulate in tissues and cause localized inflammation, while chemical additives and adsorbed pollutants may leach out and cause additional toxic effects. The paper emphasizes that chronic, long-term exposure is likely the greater concern, though current data on actual human exposure levels remains limited.
[Human Accumulation and Toxic Effects of Microplastics：A Critical Review].
This review summarizes how microplastics enter the human body through food, drinking water, and air, and where they tend to accumulate in organs and tissues. Researchers found evidence that microplastics can trigger inflammatory responses and oxidative stress in the body. The study calls for more research into the long-term health effects of continuous microplastic exposure in humans.
Microplastics in the Human Food Chain: Exposure and Health Implications
This review documents how microplastics have permeated the human food chain and are now detected in human tissues including lungs, liver, placenta, and breast milk, examining exposure routes through ingestion, inhalation, and dermal contact and the potential health consequences of this ubiquitous contamination.
Human Exposure to Microplastics and Its Associated Health Risks
This review examines how microplastics enter the human body through food, air, and skin, and have been detected in stool, blood, and tissues. Research in lab animals and human cells shows that microplastics can disrupt digestion, immunity, the nervous system, and reproduction, and can also amplify the toxicity of other environmental pollutants they carry.
The exposure routes of micro- and nanoplastics and their potential toxic effects on human health
This review summarized current knowledge about how micro- and nanoplastics enter the human body through breathing, eating, and skin contact. The study discusses evidence from laboratory and animal studies suggesting these particles may affect the reproductive, respiratory, digestive, and immune systems, though researchers note that more human studies are needed to fully understand the health implications.
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.
Microplastics - an emerging silent menace to public health
This mini-review summarizes how microplastics enter the human body through food, water, and air, and explores the range of potential health effects including inflammation, chemical toxicity, and immune disruption. Trophic transfer through the food chain is highlighted as a key pathway for microplastics to accumulate in human tissues.
The potential impact of nano- and microplastics on human health: Understanding human health risks.
This review summarizes how nano- and microplastics enter the human body through breathing, eating, drinking, and skin contact, and then accumulate in organs over time. Studies have linked this buildup to respiratory problems like asthma and lung cancer, gut inflammation, disrupted gut bacteria, and neurological symptoms. At the cellular level, plastics cause DNA damage and cell death, though more research is needed to fully understand the long-term health risks in humans.
Microplastics in the Environment: Intake through the Food Web, Human Exposure and Toxicological Effects
This review summarizes how microplastics enter the human body through food, water, air, and even products like honey, milk, and meat. Humans are exposed mainly through inhalation and ingestion, and lab studies show that high concentrations of microplastics can trigger inflammation, immune responses, and reproductive problems in animal models. More research is needed to understand the health effects of the lower levels of microplastics that people actually encounter in daily life.
Microplastics in Drinking Water and Food: a Threat to Human Health
This study reviews the primary exposure pathways through which microplastics and nanoplastics enter the human body—via drinking water, food, air, and household sources—and examines their toxic mechanisms across the digestive, respiratory, cardiovascular, reproductive, and immune systems.
Microplastics in human food chains: Food becoming a threat to health safety
This review traces how microplastics enter the human food chain through both animal and plant sources, food packaging, and beverages. Once consumed, microplastics can accumulate in tissues and release harmful chemicals like plasticizers and heavy metals inside the body. The study emphasizes that food has become a major exposure pathway for microplastics and calls for stricter regulation of plastic use in food production and packaging.
Microplastics as an emerging threat to human health: An overview of potential health impacts
This review provides a broad overview of how microplastics enter the body through food, air, and skin contact, and have been found in human tissues including the placenta, blood, lungs, and reproductive organs. Children face especially high risk due to hand-to-mouth behaviors and faster breathing rates relative to their body size, making them more susceptible to microplastic exposure and its potential toxic effects.
Impact of microplastics on human health: exposure mechanisms and potential health implications
This review examines how microplastics enter the human body through food, drinking water, and inhaled air, and summarizes what is known about their potential health effects. Researchers found that microplastics have been detected in human stool samples, blood, and lung tissue, and may carry harmful chemicals and pathogens. The study highlights that while evidence of direct health impacts is still emerging, the widespread presence of microplastics in everyday exposure pathways warrants serious attention.
How microplastics interact with food chain: a short overview of fate and impacts
This review examines how microplastics move through the food chain, from water and soil into plants and animals, and ultimately into human food. Microplastics become more dangerous when they absorb toxic chemicals from the environment, and they accumulate in organisms because they take longer to pass through the body than to be consumed. The review highlights that microplastic bioaccumulation through the food web is a direct pathway for human exposure.
The Impact of Microplastics on Human Health: a Comprehensive Review
This comprehensive review summarizes how microplastics — found in air, water, and food — enter the human body through ingestion, inhalation, and skin contact, and have been detected in organs including the lungs, liver, kidneys, placenta, and brain. Microplastic exposure has been associated with respiratory disorders, gut inflammation, reproductive toxicity, immune dysfunction, and potential neurological effects.
The Impact of Microplastic on Human Health
This review synthesized evidence on microplastic exposure pathways and health effects in humans, finding that microplastics enter the body via ingestion, inhalation, and dermal contact and are associated with oxidative stress, inflammation, genotoxicity, and endocrine disruption.
Bioaccumulation of Microplastics: From Environmental Pollutants to Multisystemic Toxicity in Humans
This review examined how microplastics accumulate in the human body and the potential toxic effects across multiple organ systems. Researchers summarized evidence indicating that microplastics can enter the body through ingestion, inhalation, and skin contact, then distribute to organs including the gut, lungs, liver, and brain. The study highlights growing concerns about chronic low-level exposure and calls for more research into the long-term health implications of microplastic bioaccumulation.
Mechanistic insight into potential toxic effects of microplastics and nanoplastics on human health
This review summarizes how microplastics and nanoplastics enter the body through breathing, eating, and skin contact, then travel through the bloodstream to deposit in organs. Studies show they can cause oxidative stress, inflammation, immune dysfunction, genetic damage, developmental abnormalities, and potentially cancer, though most evidence comes from cell and animal studies rather than human research.
Health impacts and detection challenges of human exposure to microplastics
This review examined the health impacts of human exposure to microplastics and nanoplastics through ingestion, inhalation, and skin absorption. Researchers found that these tiny particles pose significant health risks due to their ability to carry toxic contaminants and interact with biological tissues. The study also highlights major challenges in accurately detecting and measuring microplastic exposure in humans, which limits our understanding of the full scope of health effects.
Microplastics, a Global Issue: Human Exposure through Environmental and Dietary Sources
This review tracks how microplastics move from the environment into the human body through food, water, and air. Microplastics can carry harmful hitchhikers like pesticides, heavy metals, and pathogenic bacteria, and they build up in concentration as they move up the food chain. While research interest is growing rapidly, the full extent of health effects from long-term microplastic exposure in humans remains unclear.