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Recognition and detection technology for microplastic, its source and health effects

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Microplastic (MP) is ubiquitous in the environment which appeared as an immense intimidation to human and animal health. The plastic fragments significantly polluted the ocean, fresh water, food chain, and other food items. Inadequate maintenance, less knowledge of adverse influence along with inappropriate usage in addition throwing away of plastics items revolves present planet in to plastics planet. The present study aims to focus on the recognition and advance detection technologies for MPs and the adverse effects of micro- and nanoplastics on human health. MPs have rigorous adverse effect on human health that leads to condensed growth rates, lessened reproductive capability, ulcer, scrape, and oxidative nervous anxiety, in addition, also disturb circulatory and respiratory mechanism. The detection of MP particles has also placed emphasis on identification technologies such as scanning electron microscopy, Raman spectroscopy, optical detection, Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, thermo-analytical techniques, flow cytometry, holography, and hyperspectral imaging. It suggests that further research should be explored to understand the source, distribution, and health impacts and evaluate numerous detection methodologies for the MPs along with purification techniques.

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This work was supported by National Natural Science Foundation of china (No. 81872584), National 863 Young Scientist Program (No. 2015 AA020940), Natural Science Foundation Guangdong province (N0. 2016A030313138), Medical Science and Technology Research Foundation of Guangdong Province (No. A2020490), Interdisciplinary research for First- class Discipline Construction Project of Henan University (No. 2019YLXKJC04), Scientific Research Project for University of Education Bureau of Guangzhou (No. 201831841), Key Scientific Research Project Plan of Henan Province (No. 21A330001), Science and Technology Development Plan of Kaifeng in 2021(No. 2103007), and Yellow River Scholar Fund of Henan University.

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  1. College of Public Health, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, 540001, People’s Republic of China

    Nafeesa khatoon, Manthar Ali Mallah, Zengli Yu & Nan Liu

  2. Institute of Chronic Disease Risk Assessment, School of Nursing, Henan University, Kaifeng, 475004, People’s Republic of China

    Zhi Qu & Nan Liu

  3. Department of Chemical Engineering, Quaid-E-Awam University of Engineering, Science and Technology (QUEST), Nawabshah, 67480, Sindh, Pakistan

    Mukhtiar Ali

  4. Health Science Center, South China Hospital, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, 518116, People’s Republic of China

    Nan Liu

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NK and MAM were responsible for conceptualization, methodology, software, formal analysis, writing—original draft, and visualization. ZQ and MA were responsible for investigation and writing—review and editing. ZY and NL were responsible for methodology, software, supervision, funding acquisition, and writing—review and editing. The final manuscript was read and approved by all of the authors.

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khatoon, N., Mallah, M.A., Yu, Z. et al. Recognition and detection technology for microplastic, its source and health effects. Environ Sci Pollut Res 31, 11428–11452 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-023-31655-6

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