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ClearTransformation and Toxic Effects of Pollutants in Agricultural Environment
This research review summarizes how harmful chemicals and pollutants in farm environments can change into different forms and affect the safety of our food and water. The study shows that these pollutants can build up in soil and crops, potentially making their way into the food we eat and the water we drink. This matters because understanding how farm pollution affects our health can help us make better choices about food safety and support cleaner farming practices.
The Fate of Chemical Contaminants in Soil with a View to Potential Risk to Human Health: A Review
This review summarizes how chemical pollutants in soil -- including heavy metals, pesticides, and emerging contaminants like microplastics -- can reach humans through food, water, breathing, and skin contact. The paper explains that soil properties like acidity and organic matter content control how mobile and available these pollutants are, which is important for understanding actual human health risks from contaminated soil.
Emerging Organic Contaminants
This review examines emerging organic contaminants in soil environments, covering sources, environmental fate, and ecological impacts of pharmaceuticals, endocrine disruptors, personal care products, and microplastics that contaminate terrestrial ecosystems through agricultural and industrial activity.
Contaminants of emerging concern in agricultural soils: Current understanding, overlooked issues, and future priorities
This review synthesizes evidence on how contaminants of emerging concern, including pharmaceuticals, microplastics, and PFAS, enter agricultural soils, accumulate in crops, and affect ecological and human health. The study found that these contaminants pose complex risks including antimicrobial resistance and sublethal impacts on plant and soil systems, while highlighting critical knowledge gaps that need to be addressed.
Food 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.
Current situation of organic pollution in farmland soil
This review examines organic pollutants in farmland soil — including pesticides, microplastics, plasticizers, and antibiotics — finding that their widespread use from agriculture, sewage irrigation, and industrial activities poses serious threats to crop quality, food safety, and human health.
Detection, occurrence, and fate of emerging contaminants in agricultural environments (2019)
This annual review covers 2018 research on the detection, occurrence, and fate of emerging contaminants in agricultural environments, including microplastics, pharmaceuticals, and pesticides applied through irrigation water and biosolids. The review highlights farmland as a significant reservoir for emerging pollutants that can leach to groundwater or be taken up by crops.
Environmental geochemistry of emerging contaminants: impacts on agroecosystem function, food security, and human health
This review examines how emerging contaminants including microplastics, PFAS, pharmaceuticals, and engineered nanomaterials threaten agricultural ecosystems and food safety. Researchers found that these pollutants persist in soil, accumulate in crops, and disrupt beneficial soil organisms, creating complex risks that are difficult to manage with current approaches. The study emphasizes the urgent need for integrated monitoring and remediation strategies to protect both food production and human health.
Microplastics as vectors of antibiotics, heavy metals, and PFAS from agricultural soils to the food chain: Sources, transport pathways, and human health implications
This review examines how microplastics in agricultural soils can adsorb and transport antibiotics, heavy metals, and PFAS chemicals through the food chain to humans. Researchers found that microplastics act as carriers that concentrate these pollutants and facilitate their uptake by crops and livestock. The study highlights the need for better understanding of how plastic particles serve as vectors for multiple contaminants in food systems.
Interactions of microplastics and soil pollutants in soil-plant systems
This review synthesized literature on microplastic interactions with organic pollutants and heavy metals in the soil-plant system, covering sorption mechanisms, distribution characteristics, and transfer to crops. Microplastics were found to both adsorb and desorb contaminants depending on environmental conditions, acting as both concentrators and dispersal agents for soil pollutants.
Microplastics supply contaminants in food chain: non-negligible threat to health safety
This review examines how microplastics in the food chain can carry and concentrate organic pollutants like pesticides and industrial chemicals, making them more dangerous together than either would be alone. Microplastics accumulate on the surfaces of fruits and vegetables and can build up through the food web. The combined effect of microplastics and the toxic chemicals they carry poses a growing but still poorly understood threat to food safety and human health.
Mobilization, Speciation, and Transformation of Organic and Inorganic Contaminants in Soil–Groundwater Ecosystems
Not relevant to microplastics — this review covers the mobilization, speciation, and transformation of organic and inorganic contaminants (such as heavy metals and pesticides) in soil and groundwater ecosystems.
Fate, Transport Pathways, and Accumulation of Microplastics Agricultural Soil and Their Interaction with Agrochemicals
This book chapter reviews the sources, transport pathways, and accumulation dynamics of microplastics in agricultural soils and food systems, examining how plastic particles move from field to fork and what the implications are for food safety and human dietary exposure.
Fate and Transport Pathways of Microplastics in Agricultural Soil and their Interaction with Agrochemicals
Researchers reviewed how microplastics and nanoplastics move through agricultural soil and interact with agrochemicals like pesticides and fertilizers. The study highlights that industrialization-driven plastic accumulation fragments into microplastics in farming environments, where their interactions with agricultural chemicals may amplify environmental and food safety risks.
Microplastic Contamination across the Soil-Plant-Human Continuum: Mechanisms and Chain-Specific Governance
This perspective synthesized current knowledge on how microplastics move through the soil-plant-human continuum, from contaminated agricultural soils through crop uptake to dietary human exposure. The study highlights that microplastics infiltrate crops via root uptake and foliar deposition, accumulate in edible tissues, and may pose health risks including gastrointestinal accumulation and systemic inflammation upon consumption.
Plant uptake, translocation and metabolism of PBDEs in plants of food and feed industry: A review
This review examines how polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs), flame retardant additives found in many plastic products, are taken up, translocated, and metabolized by food and feed crop plants. PBDEs can enter plants through soil and air, raising concerns about dietary exposure via contaminated agricultural produce.
Interactions between microplastics and organic pollutants: Effects on toxicity, bioaccumulation, degradation, and transport
This review examines how microplastics interact with organic pollutants like pesticides and industrial chemicals in the environment. Researchers found that microplastics can absorb these pollutants and alter their toxicity, bioaccumulation, and transport, making the combined effects of microplastics and chemical contaminants potentially more harmful than either would be alone.
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.
Migration of Microplastic‐Bound Contaminants to Soil and Their Effects
This chapter reviews how microplastics accumulate in agricultural soils via sewage sludge and compost applications, adsorb heavy metals, organic pollutants, and antibiotics, and transport these contaminants into farmland, posing risks to the food chain and human health.
ИСТОЧНИКИ И ПУТИ ТРАНСЛОКАЦИИ МИКРОПЛАСТИКА В ПОЧВЕ И РАСТЕНИЯХ
This review examines sources and translocation pathways of microplastics in soil and plants across agricultural and other terrestrial ecosystems, discussing how microplastics sorb heavy metals and other pollutants and reviewing evidence for their bioaccumulation in agricultural products and implications for human health.
Research progress on environmental occurrence of microplastics and their interaction mechanism with organic pollutants
This review summarizes how microplastics in the environment interact with organic pollutants—adsorbing, carrying, and releasing them. Microplastics act as mobile carriers for persistent organic chemicals, altering their distribution and toxicity in ecosystems and the organisms, including humans, that consume them.
Uptake and bioaccumulation of microplastics by plants: Exploring impacts and remediation potential in terrestrial and aquatic environment
This review examined how plants take up and accumulate microplastics from contaminated soil, finding that plastics can disrupt soil microbial communities, reduce nutrient availability, and impair plant growth. The uptake of microplastics by edible crops raises concerns about food chain transfer to humans, since the particles can carry toxic pollutants like persistent organic compounds and heavy metals.
Persistant Organic Pollutants in Soil and Its Phytoremediation
This review covers persistent organic pollutants (POPs) in soil, including pesticides and industrial chemicals, and examines phytoremediation — using plants to clean contaminated soil — as a remediation strategy. Understanding how toxic chemicals persist in soil is relevant to understanding how plasticizers and other pollutants associated with microplastics behave in the environment.
Effect of Organic Residues on Pesticide Behavior in Soils: A Review of Laboratory Research
This review synthesizes laboratory research on how organic residues from livestock, urban, and agricultural sources affect pesticide behavior in soils, relevant to understanding how amendments containing microplastics may alter contaminant fate.