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ClearLa Révision de REACH : Quels Impacts sur la Santé Humaine, l'Environnement et l'Industrie Attendus?
This study examines the anticipated impacts of the revision of the European REACH regulation on human health, environmental protection, and industrial practices. The analysis addresses how updated chemical regulations are expected to affect the management of hazardous substances including plastic additives and pollutants across the value chain.
Chemicals management approach to sustainable development of materials
This review examines how chemicals management approaches must evolve for sustainable materials development, arguing that planetary boundaries and path-dependent industrial trajectories require rethinking how chemicals including plastics are produced and regulated.
Environmental and health hazards of chemicals in plastic polymers and products
Researchers reviewed the environmental and health hazards of chemicals in plastic polymers and products, examining the toxicological profiles of monomers, additives, and degradation products that can leach from plastics into food, water, and the environment. The study identifies numerous plastic-associated chemicals with endocrine-disrupting, carcinogenic, or developmental toxicity potential and calls for more comprehensive safety testing of plastic formulations.
Legal and Safety Issues of ECs
This chapter reviews the legal and safety frameworks surrounding emerging contaminants such as microplastics, pesticides, and flame retardants, noting significant regulatory gaps and the risks posed by their increasing environmental prevalence.
Regulating chemicals globally is key to a successful plastics treaty
This review argued that a successful global plastics treaty must regulate the more than 16,000 chemicals used across the plastic life cycle, not just the plastics themselves, as thousands of these chemicals meet criteria for persistence, bioaccumulation, and toxicity yet remain largely unregulated.
Assessing and managing environmental hazards of polymers: historical development, science advances and policy options
Researchers critically reviewed how polymer environmental safety regulations, largely unchanged since the 1990s, fail to keep pace with scientific understanding of plastic pollution. They identified four key areas needing regulatory attention, including better transparency about polymer identities, improved understanding of environmental fate across size categories, and more comprehensive hazard assessments. The study suggests that current regulatory frameworks worldwide need significant updates to adequately manage the environmental risks posed by polymers.
REACHing for divergence?—UK chemical regulation post-Brexit
This paper is not directly about microplastics; it analyzes how UK chemical regulation has diverged from EU REACH standards since Brexit, finding that the UK is falling behind the EU's pace of regulatory action on hazardous chemicals. While broadly relevant to environmental protection, the study does not address microplastics specifically.
Toxicity of plastic consumer products: a biological, chemical and social-ecological analysis
This study analyzed the toxic chemicals found in consumer plastic products, including additives, monomers, and processing by-products that can leach into food or the environment. The findings highlight that plastic toxicity extends beyond microplastic particles themselves — the chemicals embedded in plastics pose significant health risks through food packaging and environmental contamination.
Chemical safety of food products: problems and solutions (literature review)
This literature review examines chemical safety challenges in food production and processing, covering contamination by pesticides, heavy metals, mycotoxins, and emerging pollutants including microplastics, and discussing regulatory and technological solutions.
Plastic additives and microplastics as emerging contaminants: Mechanisms and analytical assessment
Researchers reviewed how chemical additives mixed into plastics during manufacturing — including stabilizers, flame retardants, and plasticizers — can leach out throughout a plastic's lifecycle and pose risks to ecosystems and human health, with microplastics acting as carriers that concentrate and transport these hazardous chemicals.
Toward a Framework for Environmental Fate and Exposure Assessment of Polymers
This review discusses challenges and opportunities for developing environmental fate and exposure assessment frameworks for polymers in regulatory risk assessment, finding that the diversity and complexity of polymers requires adaptation of existing chemical assessment approaches.
Examination of plastic’s hazards to human health underway
This study examined the multiple health hazards that plastics pose to humans across their entire life cycle, from fossil fuel extraction used as feedstocks through everyday use and disposal, conducting a comprehensive interdisciplinary analysis of exposure pathways and associated health effects.
Tackling the toxics in plastics packaging
This review addresses the issue of hazardous chemicals migrating from plastic food packaging into food, including endocrine disrupters, carcinogens, and untested synthetic compounds. The author argues that current toxicity assessment methods for packaging chemicals are inadequate and that plastic packaging is an avoidable source of dietary chemical exposure. The study calls for systemic changes in how food packaging safety is regulated to address both plastic pollution and chemical contamination.
Lehren aus dem Gruppieren von Chemikalien zur Bewertung der Risiken für die Gesundheit des Menschen
This review presents case studies and ten guiding principles for chemical grouping strategies used in human health risk assessment under EU REACH and US TSCA frameworks, arguing that structural similarity alone is insufficient for reliable grouping and that transparent criteria, toxicological similarity, and clearly defined group boundaries are essential for regulatory decision-making.
Prevalence and Impact of Emerging Chemical Contaminants in the Life Style Products on Human Health
This review examines emerging chemical contaminants found in everyday consumer products, including plasticizers, flame retardants, and microplastics, assessing their prevalence and potential health risks from chronic low-level exposure.
Contaminant Classes, Sources, and Pathways in Freshwater Environments
This book chapter reviewed major classes of chemical contaminants in freshwater environments, including microplastics, heavy metals, pharmaceuticals, and pesticides, outlining their sources, transport pathways, and ecological risks. The authors highlight the complexity of freshwater contamination and the challenges of regulation.
The time for ambitious action is now: Science-based recommendations for plastic chemicals to inform an effective global plastic treaty.
A broad scientific review made the case for ambitious global action on plastic pollution, cataloguing the more than 16,000 chemicals in plastics — including many known toxins — and their potential to leach into food, water, and the environment. The authors argue that the scale of chemical risk from plastics justifies sweeping regulatory action on both production and chemical content.
The widely disregarded health risks posed by phthalates - A global call for action
This review highlights the widespread health risks posed by phthalates from microplastic-containing products, emphasizing their routes of human exposure through food, packaging, and personal care items, and their documented effects including oncogenicity and fetal developmental impacts. The authors call for urgent global regulatory action given the scale and severity of phthalate exposure.
First Steps Toward Sustainable Circular Uses of Chemicals: Advancing the Assessment and Management Paradigm
This article advances a framework for sustainable circular use of chemicals, proposing updated assessment and management approaches to reduce chemical hazards while enabling circularity in industrial and consumer product systems.
Pollution Risks, Impacts & Management: Social, Economic and Environmental Perspectives
This edited volume covers pollution risks across multiple contaminant categories including microplastics, heavy metals, pesticides, pharmaceuticals, and algal toxins, examining their chemistry, ecotoxicology, socioeconomic impacts, and management strategies.
A Review of Paint Pollution and Its Adverse Impact on the Environment and Human Health
This review examines the sources of paint pollution—primarily volatile organic compounds and hazardous substances released during application and drying—and summarizes their health implications, environmental impacts, regulatory frameworks, and mitigation strategies. It does not focus on microplastics specifically but includes paint-derived MP particles as a recognized pollution pathway.
Polymers and Microplastics: Implications on Our Environment and Sustainability
This review discusses the environmental implications of polymers and microplastics, covering their properties, production trends, degradation pathways, and ecological impacts. It highlights the tension between the industrial utility of plastics and their growing threat to environmental and human health.
Emerging Pollutants in the Environment
This introductory chapter defines emerging pollutants as unregulated chemicals of ecological and human health concern, categorizing microplastics, endocrine disruptors, pharmaceuticals, and disinfection byproducts as priority contaminants requiring new monitoring and regulatory frameworks.
Nano/micro-plastics: Sources, trophic transfer, toxicity to the animals and humans, regulation, and assessment
This review comprehensively covered the sources, trophic transfer pathways, toxicity to animals and humans, and regulatory status of nano- and microplastics, synthesizing evidence that these particles are broadly distributed and cause harm across multiple biological levels. The authors called for improved global regulatory frameworks given the pace at which exposure evidence is accumulating.