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Emerging micropollutants in aquatic ecosystems and nanotechnology-based removal alternatives: A review

This review examines emerging micropollutants in water systems, including microplastics, pharmaceuticals, pesticides, and heavy metals, and how nanotechnology-based approaches can help remove them. These contaminants threaten drinking water safety and aquatic ecosystems worldwide. The paper evaluates various nanomaterial-based filtration and degradation methods as promising solutions for cleaning up contaminated water.

2023 Chemosphere 98 citations
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Recent advances in inspection technologies of food safety health hazards for fish and fish products

This review covers recent advances in detection technologies for food safety hazards in fish and fish products, including methods for identifying microplastics, biological contaminants, and chemical hazards. Researchers evaluated 21 detection approaches spanning spectroscopic, immunological, biosensor, and chromatographic techniques. The study serves as a guide for researchers working on seafood safety and emphasizes the importance of keeping pace with evolving detection technologies.

2023 Critical Reviews in Food Science and Nutrition 6 citations
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Unraveling the hazardous impact of diverse contaminants in the marine environment: Detection and remedial approach through nanomaterials and nano-biosensors

This review examines nanomaterial-based approaches for detecting and remediating diverse marine contaminants including microplastics, heavy metals, and organic pollutants, highlighting nano-biosensors as promising tools for environmental monitoring.

2022 Journal of Hazardous Materials 31 citations
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Microplastics in aquaculture systems: Occurrence, ecological threats and control strategies

This review summarizes how microplastics contaminate aquaculture systems through fishing gear, feed, and polluted water, and examines their effects on farmed aquatic species. Microplastics accumulate in farmed fish and shellfish, raising concerns about food safety for the millions of people who consume aquaculture products. The authors discuss removal strategies and call for better monitoring to protect both aquaculture sustainability and consumer health.

2023 Chemosphere 54 citations
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Nanotechnology-based approaches for the removal of microplastics from wastewater: a comprehensive review

This review summarizes how nanotechnology-based approaches could help remove microplastics from wastewater, since conventional treatment plants are not very effective at capturing the smallest particles. Materials like metal-organic frameworks, carbon nanomaterials, and advanced membranes show promise in lab settings for filtering out microplastics. However, scaling these technologies for real-world use and ensuring the nanomaterials themselves are safe remain major challenges.

2025 Beilstein Journal of Nanotechnology 8 citations
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Metal–organic framework applications for microplastic remediation: exploring pathways and future potential

This review examines how metal-organic frameworks (specialized porous materials) can be used to capture and remove microplastics from water. Microplastics are emerging contaminants that threaten aquatic ecosystems and human health. The paper explores different remediation pathways and the future potential of these advanced materials for cleaning up microplastic pollution.

2025 Journal of Materials Chemistry A 10 citations
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A Mini-Review of Microplastics in Aquaculture: Sources, Toxicity, Countermeasures and Prospects

This mini-review examined microplastic sources, toxicological effects on marine organisms, and potential human health risks from consuming aquaculture products contaminated with microplastics. The review covered management strategies including ecological interception, purification, improved fishing gear, remote sensing monitoring, and the need for stronger waste management policies in aquaculture.

2024 International Journal of Oceanography & Aquaculture 1 citations
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Novel Materials for the Removal of Microplastics and Nanoplastics in Drinking Water Treatment: A Comprehensive Review

This review systematically assessed novel materials—including metal-organic frameworks, bio-based adsorbents, and advanced membranes—for removing microplastics and nanoplastics from drinking water. The authors found that conventional treatment removes as little as 48.4% of particles and that emerging nanomaterial-based approaches can achieve higher efficiencies, though scalability and cost remain barriers.

2025 Water Environment Research
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Strategies for the Remediation of Micro- and Nanoplastics from Contaminated Food and Water: Advancements and Challenges

This review summarizes existing research on methods for removing micro- and nanoplastics from contaminated food and water, including filtration, chemical treatment, and biological approaches using microorganisms. While several promising techniques exist, the complexity of real-world plastic pollution makes it difficult to scale these solutions, and more cross-disciplinary research is needed to protect food and water safety.

2025 Journal of Xenobiotics 17 citations
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Nanomaterials for microplastic remediation from aquatic environment: Why nano matters?

This review examines how nanomaterials such as photocatalysts, adsorbents, and membrane filters can be used to remove microplastics from aquatic environments, highlighting why nanoscale properties offer advantages over conventional remediation approaches.

2022 Chemosphere 113 citations
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Recent Study of Separation and Identification of Micro- and Nanoplastics for Aquatic Products

This review synthesizes recent findings on the occurrence, separation, and identification of micro- and nanoplastics in aquatic food products, covering their physical and chemical properties, carrier and chemical effects, seasonal and spatial variability, and analytical methods relevant to food safety assessment.

2023 Polymers 4 citations
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A review of microplastic pollution in aquaculture: Sources, effects, removal strategies and prospects

This review examines how microplastics contaminate fish farms through environmental inputs and aquaculture equipment, affecting water quality and the health of farmed seafood. Since contaminated aquaculture products are a direct pathway for microplastics to reach the human diet, reducing plastic pollution in fish farming is important for food safety.

2023 Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety 176 citations
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Impacts of nano/micro-plastics on safety and quality of aquatic food products

This review assessed the impact of nano- and microplastics on the safety and quality of aquatic food products, highlighting how contaminated marine organisms transmit plastic particles and associated toxins to higher trophic levels including humans.

2023 Advances in food and nutrition research 9 citations
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Micro/nanoplastics in aquatic ecosystems: Analytical challenges, ecological impacts, and mitigation strategies

This review provides a comprehensive assessment of micro- and nanoplastic pollution in aquatic ecosystems, covering detection methods, toxic effects across the food chain, and emerging cleanup strategies. Researchers highlight the limitations of current analytical techniques and the challenges of accurately measuring these tiny particles in water and living organisms. The study identifies key research priorities needed to better understand and mitigate the growing threat of plastic particle pollution in waterways.

2025 Environmental Chemistry and Ecotoxicology 2 citations
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Plastic Pollution and Microplastics as Emerging Threats to Aquaculture: A Narrative Review

This narrative review examined how microplastic contamination has emerged as a major challenge for aquaculture, identifying MPs in pond water, sediments, fish feeds, and cultured organisms. The review discussed MP sources from degraded infrastructure and contaminated inputs, and assessed the implications for farmed fish health and seafood safety.

2025 Preprints.org
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Metal-Organic Frameworks for the Elimination of Microplastics from Water: A Review of Advances and Mechanisms.

**TLDR:** This review summarizes research on using special materials called metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) to remove tiny plastic particles from water that can harm human health. Scientists have found these materials can effectively capture and break down microplastics in lab studies, but they still need to overcome challenges like high costs and making the process work in real-world water treatment systems. This research is important because microplastics are everywhere in our water supply and pose health risks to humans.

2026 ACS applied materials & interfaces
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Recent advancement in removal of microplastics as emerging pollutants from aquatic ecosystems: adsorption and separation

This review summarizes recent advances in adsorption and separation technologies for removing microplastics from aquatic ecosystems, covering materials including magnetic nanoparticles, metal-organic frameworks, biochar, and electrocoagulation approaches.

2025 Environmental Geochemistry and Health
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Harnessing Nanomaterials for Water Decontamination: Insights into Environmental Impact, Sustainable Applications, and the Emerging Role of Polymeric Nanostructures

This review examines how nanomaterials can be used for water decontamination, including the removal of microplastics from aquatic environments. Researchers found that properties like large surface area and high reactivity make nanomaterials effective at addressing water pollution, though concerns remain about the environmental persistence and potential secondary effects of the nanomaterials themselves.

2026 Polymers
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Microplastics removal from aqueous environment by metal organic frameworks

This review examines how metal-organic frameworks (MOFs), a class of advanced porous materials, can remove 70-99.9% of microplastics from water in laboratory settings. MOFs can be customized with specific pore sizes and chemical properties to target different types of microplastics. While challenges remain with cost and scaling up, this technology shows promise for developing more effective water treatment systems to reduce human exposure to microplastics in drinking water.

2023 BMC Chemistry 50 citations
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Microplastics in Surface Waters: A Critical Review of Emerging Challenges and Future Perspectives

This review examines microplastic contamination across aquatic environments, covering detection technologies, ecological risks from ingestion by wildlife and transfer through food webs, and how microplastics serve as vectors for pesticides, heavy metals, and chemical pollutants.

2025 Environmental Quality Management
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Microplastics—A New Threat to Aquatic Food Safety?

This review article examines whether microplastics pose a new threat to the safety of aquatic food sources, noting that plastics have accumulated widely in marine environments and are ingested by organisms throughout the food chain. The authors assess potential risks from microplastic particles in seafood and the possibility of chemical contaminants being transferred from plastic to human consumers.

2015 Journal of Aquatic Food Product Technology 5 citations
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Microplastic Pollution in Aquaculture: Challenges and Mitigation

This review addressed microplastic contamination in aquaculture systems, where plastic materials like netting and equipment contribute to environmental pollution. The study found that microplastics are absorbed into aquatic organisms' cells, tissues, and organs, disrupting physiological processes, and highlighted the need for urgent management strategies given the expected increase of microplastics in aquatic environments.

2025 Water and Environment Journal 1 citations
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Microplastics in aquatic systems: An in-depth review of current and potential water treatment processes

This review provides a detailed examination of microplastic contamination in aquatic systems and evaluates current and emerging water treatment technologies for their removal. Researchers assessed methods ranging from conventional coagulation and filtration to advanced techniques like membrane bioreactors and electrochemical processes. The study concludes that while no single technology fully eliminates microplastics, combining multiple treatment approaches offers the most promising path forward.

2024 Chemosphere 10 citations
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Unraveling the ecotoxicological effects of micro and nano-plastics on aquatic organisms and human health

This review summarizes the growing body of evidence on how micro- and nanoplastics affect aquatic organisms and, through the food chain, potentially human health. The tiny plastic particles absorb toxic pollutants and pathogens from the water, acting as carriers that deliver these harmful substances into the bodies of fish, shellfish, and other organisms. The review highlights that both direct plastic toxicity and indirect chemical exposure through contaminated seafood pose risks to human consumers.

2024 Frontiers in Environmental Science 23 citations