Microplastics in human food chains: Food becoming a threat to health safety

A Al Mamun, TAE Prasetya, IR Dewi… - Science of The Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
While versatile application of plastics has generated huge benefits in our life, the 'plastic end-
of-life'comes with downsides of emerging concern is plastic particles within all parts of …

Environmental pollutants and their effects on human health

SS Shetty, D Deepthi, S Harshitha, S Sonkusare… - Heliyon, 2023 - cell.com
Numerous environmental contaminants significantly contribute to human disease, affecting
climate change and public and individual health, resulting in increased mortality and …

Growing environmental footprint of plastics driven by coal combustion

L Cabernard, S Pfister, C Oberschelp, S Hellweg - Nature Sustainability, 2022 - nature.com
Research on the environmental impacts from the global value chain of plastics has typically
focused on the disposal phase, considered most harmful to the environment and human …

[HTML][HTML] The Minderoo-Monaco Commission on plastics and human health

PJ Landrigan, H Raps, M Cropper, C Bald… - Annals of Global …, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Background: Plastics have conveyed great benefits to humanity and made possible some of
the most significant advances of modern civilization in fields as diverse as medicine …

Environmental factors in declining human fertility

NE Skakkebæk, R Lindahl-Jacobsen… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
A severe decline in child births has occurred over the past half century, which will lead to
considerable population declines, particularly in industrialized regions. A crucial question is …

Microplastic materials in the environment: Problem and strategical solutions

W Tian, P Song, H Zhang, X Duan, Y Wei… - Progress in Materials …, 2023 - Elsevier
Plastics are widely used in our daily life; however, poor management and disposal result in
their ubiquity throughout the biosphere. Increased accumulation of microplastic (MP) or even …

Microplastics: a real global threat for environment and food safety: a state of the art review

K Ziani, CB Ioniță-Mîndrican, M Mititelu, SM Neacșu… - Nutrients, 2023 - mdpi.com
Microplastics are small plastic particles that come from the degradation of plastics,
ubiquitous in nature and therefore affect both wildlife and humans. They have been detected …

Ultra‐processed foods and the nutrition transition: Global, regional and national trends, food systems transformations and political economy drivers

P Baker, P Machado, T Santos, K Sievert… - Obesity …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Understanding the drivers and dynamics of global ultra‐processed food (UPF) consumption
is essential, given the evidence linking these foods with adverse health outcomes. In this …

Review of recent advances in the biodegradability of polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA) bioplastics and their composites

KW Meereboer, M Misra, AK Mohanty - Green Chemistry, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
The detrimental impact of single-use plastics on the environment is daily news across the
globe. Single-use plastic packaging materials and other plastic waste originating from …

An overview of plastic waste generation and management in food packaging industries

LK Ncube, AU Ude, EN Ogunmuyiwa, R Zulkifli… - Recycling, 2021 - mdpi.com
Over the years, the world was not paying strict attention to the impact of rapid growth in
plastic use. This has led to unprecedented amounts of mixed types of plastic waste entering …