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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.

2019 Agro Environ Media - Agriculture and Ennvironmental Science Academy, Haridwar, India eBooks 86 citations
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Soil Contamination, Risk Assessment, and Remediation

This review covers soil contamination from various sources including agrochemicals, waste materials, and emerging pollutants like microplastics, along with methods for risk assessment and remediation. Researchers examined how human activities such as farming, waste disposal, and industrial practices contribute to soil pollution and disrupt soil fertility. The study emphasizes the need for comprehensive risk assessment frameworks that account for the complex interactions between traditional and emerging soil contaminants.

2024 IntechOpen eBooks 2 citations
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Environmental Food Contaminants and Control Recommendations

This review outlines the sources, types, and health risks of environmental food contaminants including microplastics, pesticides, and heavy metals, and provides practical control recommendations. The authors emphasize monitoring systems and improved agricultural practices as key strategies for reducing contamination.

2024 Journal of Biomedical Research & Environmental Sciences 1 citations
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Agricultural Microplastics Pollution: From Hidden Threats to Global Food Security Towards Sustainable Strategies

This comprehensive review examines agricultural microplastic pollution across the atmosphere, soil, water, and biological systems, proposing a framework linking farming-derived MP contamination to food security risks and calling for integrated approaches to manage MNPs in agricultural systems.

2025 Plant Cell & Environment
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Beneath the Surface: Unmasking the Global Crisis of Soil Pollution

This review examines soil pollution as a global crisis driven by industrial emissions, intensive agriculture, and poor waste management, covering how heavy metals, pesticides, microplastics, and emerging contaminants accumulate in soils, degrade microbial communities, reduce crop yields, and enter the food chain.

2025 Journal of Advance Agricultural Research
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Microplastics in agricultural soils: a new challenge not only for agro-environmental policy?

This review addresses microplastic pollution in agricultural soils, identifying farming practices like mulching and sludge application as significant sources and discussing potential impacts on soil health and food safety. It calls for both policy action and more research on microplastic behavior in terrestrial environments.

2019 AgEcon Search (University of Minnesota, USA) 5 citations
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Microplastic contamination in the agricultural soil—mitigation strategies, heavy metals contamination, and impact on human health: a review

This review examines how microplastics contaminate agricultural soil through plastic mulch, irrigation water, and fertilizers, then alter soil chemistry, harm beneficial microorganisms, and reduce crop productivity. The authors highlight that microplastics can accumulate in crops and enter the human food chain, posing risks to food safety and human health, particularly through daily food and water consumption.

2024 Plant Cell Reports 81 citations
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Microplastics in Agricultural Soils: An Emerging Threat to Soil Health, Microbial Ecology, Crop Productivity, and Food Safety

This review examines how microplastics accumulate in agricultural soils from sources like plastic mulch, sewage sludge, and atmospheric deposition. Researchers found that these particles can disrupt soil microbial communities, harm plant health, and potentially enter the human food chain. The study highlights the urgent need for mitigation strategies to address this growing but often overlooked form of pollution in farmland.

2025 International Journal of Plant & Soil Science 4 citations
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Environmental interactions and remediation strategies for co-occurring pollutants in soil

Researchers review how multiple pollutants — including heavy metals, pesticides, and microplastics — interact in contaminated soils, creating combined effects that are harder to remediate than any single pollutant alone. The review synthesizes current remediation strategies and identifies key knowledge gaps in understanding how co-occurring pollutants behave together, which is critical for protecting agricultural soil health and food safety.

2024 Earth Critical Zone 20 citations
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[Research Process on the Combined Pollution of Microplastics and Typical Pollutants in Agricultural Soils].

This review examined research on the combined pollution of microplastics and typical agricultural pollutants including pesticides, heavy metals, and fertilizers in agroecosystems. The paper discussed how co-existing pollutants interact with microplastics to create compound pollution with elevated ecological and human health risks.

2024 PubMed 1 citations
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Microplastics inAgricultural Soils: Sources, Fate,and Interactions with Other Contaminants

This review examines microplastics as emerging soil contaminants, focusing on their interactions with co-occurring pollutants such as heavy metals, pesticides, and antibiotics, and assessing the compound toxic risks these combinations pose to agricultural ecosystems and food safety.

2025 Figshare
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Editorial: Hazardous pollutants in agricultural soil and environment

This editorial introduces a special issue on hazardous pollutants in agricultural soil, framing the challenge of heavy metals, persistent organic pollutants, microplastics, and other contaminants as a growing threat to global food security.

2024 Frontiers in Microbiology 5 citations
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Microplastics as an Emerging Environmental Pollutant in Agricultural Soils: Effects on Ecosystems and Human Health

This review examines how microplastics enter and move through agricultural soil ecosystems, affecting soil properties, nutrient cycling, and the organisms that live in and depend on healthy soil. Researchers found that microplastics can alter key biogeochemical processes and interact with co-existing pollutants like heavy metals and pesticides, potentially compounding their harmful effects. The study highlights the need for prevention and control strategies as microplastic contamination of farmland becomes an increasingly recognized environmental and potential human health concern.

2022 Frontiers in Environmental Science 151 citations
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Assessment of soil microplastics: An overview on toxicity, effects on heavy metals adsorption, solid-phase extraction, and detection techniques

This review examined how microplastics in soil enter the food chain and pose human health risks, with particular attention to their role as carriers for heavy metals. Agricultural practices like plastic mulching and sewage sludge application were identified as major sources of soil MP contamination.

2025 Sustainable Environment
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Research of New Pollutant Microplastics in Soil

This review summarizes microplastic pollution in agricultural soils, covering sources, abundance, transport pathways, and interactions with heavy metals and organic pollutants. The authors highlight that soil microplastic contamination is a growing threat to food security and soil ecosystem health.

2021 IOP Conference Series Earth and Environmental Science 4 citations
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Microplastics in Agricultural Soils: A New Challenge Not Only for Agro-environmental Policy?

This review examines microplastic pollution in agricultural soils, identifying tire wear, mulch films, sewage sludge, and atmospheric deposition as major sources. Agriculture is both a victim and a polluter in the microplastic cycle, and the authors call for dedicated agro-environmental policies to address contamination of farmland soils.

2020 Journal of Applied Business and Economics 7 citations
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Tiny toxins, big problems: the hidden threat of microplastic in agroecosystems

This review examines the impacts of microplastic contamination in agricultural soils, covering sources from plastic mulch and irrigation, effects on soil structure, water retention, microbial diversity, and nutrient cycling, and consequences for crop health and food safety.

2025 Plant Science Today
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Soil Contamination by Microplastics: Implications for Soil Health and Agro-Ecosystems

This book chapter reviewed how microplastics enter agricultural soils through plastic mulches, sewage sludge, and irrigation systems, and how they alter soil porosity, water retention, and nutrient cycling. The authors concluded that microplastic contamination poses significant and underappreciated long-term risks to agricultural ecosystem sustainability.

2025 Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
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Soil pollution in the European Union – An outlook

This review assesses the state of soil pollution across the European Union, finding that contamination from heavy metals, pesticides, and emerging pollutants like microplastics is widespread but poorly monitored. The authors call for standardized measurement methods and updated regulations, noting that soil pollution can affect human health through contaminated crops and drinking water.

2024 Environmental Science & Policy 38 citations
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Microplastics in Agricultural Soils: Sources, Fate, and Interactions with Other Contaminants

This review examines how microplastics enter farmland through irrigation, fertilizers, and plastic mulch, and how long-term farming practices affect their spread and aging in soil. The paper highlights that microplastics can either increase or decrease the toxicity of co-existing pollutants like pesticides and heavy metals depending on how strongly each contaminant binds to soil versus plastic particles.

2025 Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry 10 citations
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Plastics in soils: impacts on agriculture and food

This work reviews the impacts of plastic pollution in soils on agricultural productivity and food safety, examining how plastic particles and associated chemicals affect soil health, crop growth, and food quality. The publication is part of the international scientific literature on plastic contamination of agricultural systems.

2024 SPIRE - Sciences Po Institutional REpository
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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.

2023
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Paving the way toward soil safety and health: current status, challenges, and potential solutions

This review examines the global threats to soil health from industrial chemical contamination and explores potential solutions including monitoring, advanced remediation technologies, and holistic soil management. While covering soil pollution broadly, it is relevant to microplastics because they are a major and growing soil contaminant that is extremely difficult to remove once introduced. The review emphasizes that preventing pollutants from entering soil is far more effective and less costly than trying to clean up contamination afterward.

2024 Frontiers of Environmental Science & Engineering 15 citations
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Combined pollution of soil by heavy metals, microplastics, and pesticides: Mechanisms and anthropogenic drivers

This study investigated how heavy metals, microplastics, and pesticides interact when they contaminate soil together, finding that their combined effects are complex and often worse than any single pollutant. Microplastics can absorb and concentrate both heavy metals and pesticides, changing how these chemicals move through soil and into plants. The findings highlight how agricultural soils contaminated with multiple pollutants could increase human exposure through crops grown in that soil.

2024 Journal of Hazardous Materials 80 citations