1. Detection and characterization of small-sized microplastics (≥ 5 µm) in milk products
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Paulo A. Da Costa Filho, Daniel Andrey, Bjorn Eriksen, Rafael P. Peixoto, Benoit M. Carreres, Mark E. Ambühl, Josep B. Descarrega, Stephane Dubascoux, Pascal Zbinden, Alexandre Panchaud, and Eric Poitevin
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Medicine ,Science - Abstract
Abstract Microplastics (MPs) have gained a high degree of public interest since they are associated with the global release of plastics into the environment. Various studies have confirmed the presence of MPs throughout the food chain. However, information on the ingestion of MPs via the consumption of many commonly consumed foods like dairy products are scarce due to the lack of studies investigating the “contamination” of this food group by MPs. This lack of occurrence data is mainly due to the absence of robust analytical methods capable of reliably quantifying MPs with size
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- 2021
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