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Microplastics Pollution as an Invisible Potential Threat to Food Safety and Security, Policy Challenges and the Way Forward

FILONE TECNOLOGICO	TEMA
economia circolare e sostenibilità

RIASSUNTO

Technological advances, coupled with increasing demands by consumers, have led to a drastic increase in plastic production. After serving their purposes, these plastics reach our water bodies as their destination and become ingested by aquatic organisms. This ubiquitous phenomenon has exposed humans to microplastics mostly through the consumption of sea food. This has led the World Health Organization (WHO) to make an urgent call for the assessment of environmental pollution due to microplastics and its effect on human health. This review summarizes studies between 1999 and 2020 in relation to microplastics in aquatic ecosystems and human food products, their potential toxic effects as elicited in animal studies, and policies on their use and disposal. There is a paucity of information on the toxicity mechanisms of microplastics in animal studies, and despite their documented presence in food products, no policy has been in place so far, to monitor and regulates microplastics in commercial foods meant for human consumption. Although there are policies and regulations with respect to plastics, these are only in a few countries and in most instances are not fully implemented due to socioeconomic reasons, so they do not address the problem across the entire life cycle of plastics from production to disposal. More animal research to elucidate pathways and early biomarkers of microplastic toxicity that can easily be detected in humans is needed. This is to create awareness and influence policies that will address this neglected threat to food safety and security.

DATA

Data di pubblicazione: 01/12/2020

AUTORI

USMAN SUNUSI
ABDULL RAZIS AHMAD FAIZAL
SHAARI KHOZIRAH
AMAL MOHAMMAD NOOR AZMAI
SAAD MOHD ZAMRI
MAT ISA NURULFIZA
NAZARUDIN MUHAMMAD FARHAN
ZULKIFLI SYAIZWAN ZAHMIR
SUTRA JUMRIA
IBRAHIM MUSA ADAMU

ENTE DI AFFERENZA

NATURAL MEDICINES & PROD RSCH LAB INST BIOSCIENCE UNIV PUTRA MALAYSIA 43400 UPM SERDANG SELANGOR MALAYSIA USUNUSI BCH BUK EDU NG SU KHOZIRAH UPM EDU MY KS
DEPT FOOD SCIENCE FACULTY OF FOOD SCIENCE & TECH UNIV PUTRA MALAYSIA 43400 UPM SERDANG SELANGOR MALAYSIA
DEPT CHEMISTRY FACULTY OF SCIENCE UNIV PUTRA MALAYSIA 43400 UPM SERDANG SELANGOR MALAYSIA
DEPT BIOLOGY FACULTY OF SCIENCE UNIV PUTRA MALAYSIA 43400 UPM SERDANG SELANGOR MALAYSIA MNAMAL UPM EDU MY MNAA SYAIZWAN UPM EDU MY SZZ JUMRIASUTRA GMAIL COM JS MAIBRAHIM UNIMAID EDU NG MAI
AQUATIC ANIMAL HEALTH & THERAPEUTICS LAB AQUA HEALTH INST BIOSCIENCE UNIV PUTRA MALAYSIA 43400 UPM SERDANG SELANGOR MALAYSIA MZAMRI UPM EDU MY MZS M FARHANNAZA UPM EDU MY MFN
DEPT VETERINARY LAB DIAGNOSIS FACULTY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE UNIV PUTRA MALAYSIA 43400 UPM SERDANG SELANGOR MALAYSIA
DEPT CELL & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY FACULTY OF BIOTECHNOLOGY & BIMOLECULAR SCIENCES UNIV PUTRA MALAYSIA 43400 UPM SERDANG SELANGOR MALAYSIA NURULFIZA UPM EDU MY
LAB OF VACCINES & BIOMOLECULES VACBIO INST BIOSCIENCE UNIV PUTRA MALAYSIA 43400 UPM SERDANG SELANGOR MALAYSIA

RIVISTA

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 17(24), 9591

IMPACT FACTOR

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