First meeting for the #Plastic & #Waste Journal Club is finalized!

This month, we will be discussing #Microplastics in Humans: potential pathways, prevalence, and effects. Woohoo!

Everyone should have gotten an email and zoom invite. 😀 If you are on Slack, it's in there too!
I volunteered to host our first one and have been meaning to catch up and read more about this topic. Here are the papers!

Starting from an overview... ( @GCovernton)
Human consumption of #Microplastics (Cox et al. 2019) https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.est.9b01517
Human Consumption of Microplastics

Microplastics are ubiquitous across ecosystems, yet the exposure risk to humans is unresolved. Focusing on the American diet, we evaluated the number of microplastic particles in commonly consumed...

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.est.9b01517
And recent lit on new evidence in the human placenta!

Plasticenta: First evidence of #microplastics in human placenta (Ragusa et al. 2021) https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160412020322297
Plasticenta: First evidence of microplastics in human placenta

Microplastics are particles smaller than five millimeters deriving from the degradation of plastic objects present in the environment. Microplastics c


https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160412020322297
Down to cellular internalization of microplastics:

Environmental exposure enhances the internalization of microplastic particles into cells (Ramsperger et al. 2020) https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/6/50/eabd1211
Environmental exposure enhances the internalization of microplastic particles into cells

Microplastic particles ubiquitously found in the environment are ingested by a huge variety of organisms. Subsequently, microplastic particles can translocate from the gastrointestinal tract into the...

https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/6/50/eabd1211
And a recent review:

A review of data for quantifying human exposures to micro and nanoplastics and potential health risks (Zarus et al. 2021) https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048969720375410
A review of data for quantifying human exposures to micro and nanoplastics and potential health...

Plastic debris have been shown to degenerate to particle sizes that can be transported in air, water, and food. Small particles are documented to ente


https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048969720375410
And I had to throw in a thinker, and liked this short editorial from @MarineSteph and Mudway (2019):

The Ins and Outs of Microplastics https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31476769/ 
The Ins and Outs of Microplastics - PubMed

The Ins and Outs of Microplastics

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31476769/
Looking forward to everyone's thoughts and a great discussion to come!

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