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ClearPlastics, diet and human health: Accurately assessing exposure in adults.
This research project is developing methods to accurately measure how much plastic people are exposed to through their diet, including microplastics from food packaging. The study examines whether reducing plastic food packaging can lower dietary plastic exposure and simultaneously improve diet quality. It matters because understanding true dietary exposure is a prerequisite for assessing health risks from microplastics in food.
More Than Food: An Analysis of Multidimensional Relationships in Our Food System
This analysis examines the food system as a multidimensional construct shaped by environmental, social, economic, and cultural factors, arguing that understanding food requires looking beyond production to the full range of systems that influence what people eat. Microplastic contamination of food is one dimension of how environmental degradation intersects with food system health.
Microplastics in food - a critical approach to definition, sample preparation, and characterisation
This review critically examines how microplastics in food are defined, extracted, and analyzed across different studies, finding significant inconsistencies that make it hard to compare results. The lack of standardized methods for isolating and identifying microplastics in food means that contamination levels may be over- or underestimated. The authors call for unified research methods to enable credible assessments of how dietary microplastic exposure affects health.
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.
Precision Nutrition Redefined: Integrative Molecular Frameworks for Personalized Dietary Interventions
This review explored the biochemical and molecular foundations of personalized nutrition, integrating nutrigenetics, epigenomics, microbiomics, and metabolomics to tailor dietary strategies to individual biology. The authors identified environmental contaminants, including microplastics, as factors that may interact with genetic and metabolic profiles to influence nutritional outcomes.
Methods for the identification and quantification of microplastics in foods (a review)
This review examined analytical methods for identifying and quantifying microplastics in food, finding that standardized, sensitive techniques are urgently needed to accurately assess human dietary exposure to these emerging contaminants.
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.
Personalized Nutrition: Engineering Dietary Recommendations
This review examines personalized nutrition approaches that integrate genomics, metabolomics, and behavioral science to craft individual dietary recommendations, with attention to how dietary plastic exposure through contaminated foods factors into broader nutritional risk assessment frameworks.
Sustainability outcomes of the United States food system: A systematic review
This systematic review identified 93 sustainability outcomes of the U.S. food system across environmental, socio-economic, and health themes, finding that socio-economic outcomes are significantly underrepresented in the literature. The study reveals that food systems research remains siloed across disciplines, with natural science journals rarely addressing social dimensions. Environmental contaminants including microplastics are among the emerging concerns that span multiple outcome categories in food system sustainability.
Microplastics Pollution as an Invisible Potential Threat to Food Safety and Security, Policy Challenges and the Way Forward
This review synthesized studies from 1999 to 2020 on microplastics in aquatic ecosystems and human food products, documenting toxic effects from animal studies and identifying major policy gaps in plastic use and disposal regulation, particularly regarding human health risk assessment.
Microplastics in food and beyond: What analytical needs?
This French habilitation thesis presents a body of research on methods for extracting, identifying, and quantifying microplastics in seafood and other food matrices, framed within the One Health concept linking environmental, animal, and human health. The author developed and harmonized analytical approaches to estimate human exposure across different sample types, while also characterizing plastic additives and assessing their biological impacts. The work underscores the need for standardized, multidisciplinary methods to properly evaluate microplastic risks throughout the food chain.
Editorial: Dietary exposures to environmental pollutants: integrated multimedia perspectives
This editorial reviews how dietary exposure to environmental pollutants, including microplastics, affects human health from multiple angles. The piece highlights that food is one of the most significant pathways through which people encounter harmful contaminants, making it essential to understand how pollutants accumulate in what we eat and drink.
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.
Exposure to microplastics from food: Comparative analysis of food types and quantification techniques
A meta-analysis of 193 studies found microplastics present across all 13 food and drink categories examined, with mollusks and crustaceans showing the highest concentrations, while comparing quantification methods revealed important inconsistencies in measurement approaches that complicate dietary exposure assessments.
Microplastic profusion in food and drinking water: are microplastics becoming a macroproblem?
This review examined the prevalence of microplastics in food and drinking water, assessing trophic transfer along the food web and evaluating whether microplastic contamination in human dietary sources constitutes a growing public health concern.
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.
[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.
Microplastics: an emerging threat to food security and human health
This review examines the growing body of evidence showing that microplastics are present in seafood and other food products worldwide, making human dietary exposure virtually unavoidable. Researchers summarize the potential risks to food security and human health from ingesting microplastics and the chemical contaminants they carry. The study identifies significant research gaps and calls for more work on monitoring and eliminating microplastics throughout the food supply chain.
Risks Associated with Dietary Exposure to Industrial and Geological Contaminants from the Consumption of Foods Obtained from Marine and Fresh Water, Including Aquaculture
This review examines dietary exposure risks from industrial and geological contaminants in marine and freshwater foods, including microplastics, heavy metals, and persistent organic pollutants, covering both wild-capture and aquaculture sources.
Food Waste and Nutrition Quality in the Context of Public Health: A Scoping Review
This scoping review examined the intersection of food waste, nutrition quality, and plastic waste in the context of public health. Researchers identified four main themes linking these topics and found that while food sustainability messaging exists, more integrated approaches are needed to address the combined public health challenges of food waste, nutritional quality, and plastic contamination in the food system.
Marine microplastic debris: An emerging issue for food security, food safety and human health
This review examines the evidence for microplastic contamination in seafood and discusses what it means for food security and human health. Researchers found that microplastics have been detected in commercially important fish and shellfish species worldwide, but the actual health risks to humans from consuming contaminated seafood remain poorly understood. The study identifies critical knowledge gaps and calls for standardized methods to better assess the dietary exposure and potential toxicity of microplastics.
The measurement of food safety and security risks associated with micro- and nanoplastic pollution
Researchers reviewed how micro- and nanoplastic pollution enters the human food chain through agricultural systems, raising concerns for food safety and security. They identified major gaps in our ability to assess the risks of plastic contamination in food and feed sources. The study calls for interdisciplinary approaches and better analytical methods to understand and address this growing challenge.
How Pollution Affects Food and Human Health: An Integrated Perspective of Ayurveda and Modern Science
Researchers reviewed how food pollution — from air, water, soil, and plastics including microplastics — affects human health through both modern scientific and Ayurvedic frameworks. Both systems identified parallel pathways of harm, suggesting integrative approaches to understanding diet-related toxic exposures.
Food Contamination by Microplastics and Human Health Implications
This review examines how food is contaminated by microplastics throughout the supply chain — from agricultural soil and irrigation water to food processing and packaging — and evaluates the health implications for human consumers. The authors estimate dietary microplastic intake across food categories and identify seafood, drinking water, and packaged foods as the highest-exposure routes.