Human Activities-Derived Microplastics, Multiple Contamination Sources and Risk Assessment
A special issue of Coatings (ISSN 2079-6412). This special issue belongs to the section "Coatings for Food Technology and System".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2022) | Viewed by 2890
Special Issue Editors
2. Department of Zoology, Faculty of Science, Cairo University, Giza, Egypt
Interests: protein chemistry; molecular biology; cytogenetics
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Currently, human activities lead to high input of microplastics into the environment, invading our life and vigorously interrupting our food chain, the process that should track our attention and directs our research efforts to study how this negatively affects our health and lifestyle. Microplastics (MPs) come from many sources including, but not limited to, plastic bags, water bottles, food packings, coatings , and paints (for example, coatings/paint-MPs pollution arise from external surfaces of buildings, ships, and boating activities), which are widely used in different applications. They usually consist of different polymers including polyesters, polystyrenes, polyurethanes, polyacrylates, and polyamides. They contribute to the release of microplastics (MPs)/nanoplastics (NPs) in marine and terrestrial environments. MPs not only act as a marine and terrestrial environment pollutant, but also could act as a vector for potentially toxic elements and biocides contamination. Recently, different research articles have reported MPs contamination in food and beverages. The serious problem is the transfer of MPs and any other adsorbed toxic pollutants to humans through the food chain. This clearly mentioned in a few articles that detect MPs contamination in human serum, umbilical cord, and stool. Briefly, any source causing an increase in MPs could affect our terrestrial, marine, and freshwater biota, which in turn could increase the implications for human health.
Highlights
- Different sources of microplastics contamination.
- Different methods of MPs extraction.
- Fluorescence microscope and FTIR for MPs detection.
- Microplastics’ prevalence in aquatic or terrestrial
- Microplastics pollution in food and drinks.
- Risk assessment of nanoplastics contamination on human cells.
Dr. Nahed A. Hussien
Prof. Dr. Jamila S. Al Malki
Guest Editors
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