Author, as appears in the article.: Tran TV; Jalil AA; Nguyen TM; Nguyen TTT; Nabgan W; Nguyen DTC
Department: Enginyeria Química
URV's Author/s: Nabgan, Walid
Keywords: Occurrence Microplastics Health impact Environmental pollution Analytical methods
Abstract: Nowadays, microplastic pollution is one of the globally urgent concerns as a result of discharging plastic products into the atmosphere, aquatic and soil environments. Microplastics have average size of less than 5 mm, are non-biodegradable, accumulative, and highly persistent substances. Thousands of tons of microplastics are still accumulated in various environments, posing an enormous threat to human health and living creatures. Here, we review the occurrence and analytical methods, and impact of microplastics in the environments including soil, aquatic media, and atmosphere. Analytical methods including visual observation, Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy, Raman spectroscopy, scanning electron microscopy, and pyrolysis-gas chromatography-mass spectrometry were evaluated. We elucidated the environmental and human health impacts of microplastics with emphasis on life malfunction, immune disruption, neurotoxicity, diseases and other tangible health risks. This review also found some shortages of analytical equivalence and/or standardization, inconsistence in sampling collection and limited knowledge of microplastic toxicity. It is hopeful that the present work not only affords a more insight into the potential dangers of microplastics on human health but also urges future researches to establish new standardizations in analytical methods.
Thematic Areas: Zootecnia / recursos pesqueiros Toxicology Química Psicología Pharmacology & pharmacy Pharmacology Odontología Medicine (miscellaneous) Medicina veterinaria Medicina ii Medicina i Materiais Interdisciplinar Health, toxicology and mutagenesis Geografía Geociências Farmacia Environmental sciences Ensino Engenharias ii Ciências biológicas iii Ciências biológicas ii Ciências biológicas i Ciências ambientais Ciências agrárias i Biotecnología Biodiversidade Astronomia / física
licence for use: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/
Author's mail: walid.nabgan@urv.cat
Author identifier: 0000-0001-9901-862X
Record's date: 2024-08-03
Papper version: info:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersion
Link to the original source: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1382668923001904
Licence document URL: https://repositori.urv.cat/ca/proteccio-de-dades/
Papper original source: Environmental Toxicology And Pharmacology. 102 104248-
APA: Tran TV; Jalil AA; Nguyen TM; Nguyen TTT; Nabgan W; Nguyen DTC (2023). A review on the occurrence, analytical methods, and impact of microplastics in the environment. Environmental Toxicology And Pharmacology, 102(), 104248-. DOI: 10.1016/j.etap.2023.104248
Article's DOI: 10.1016/j.etap.2023.104248
Entity: Universitat Rovira i Virgili
Journal publication year: 2023
Publication Type: Journal Publications