A research team led by ecotoxicologist Heather Leslie and analytical chemist Marja Lamoree (Dept. of Environment and Health, Faculty of Science, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, De Boelelaan 1108, 1081 HZ Amsterdam, the Netherlands) have become the first to demonstrate that plastic particles from our living environment end up in the human bloodstream.
The results of the research project, called Immunoplast, were published today in the scientific journal Environment International. The research shows that miniscule pieces of plastic from our living environment are absorbed into the human bloodstream.
They said Next challenges are to discover how far this #pollution goes (is it in our organs? babies in the womb?), and to find out if this is harmful to our health. We continue to work on answering these questions.
https://vu.nl/en/news/2022/microplastics-found-in-human-bloodstream
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Interestingly enough, from my point of view, the breakthrough presented in this article is the use of Py-GC/MS to quantify MPs in biological matrices (in this case, blood). Perhaps the future of MPs/NPs research relies on novel techniques to quantify the smallest particles, leaving spectroscopic techniques (e.g., FTIR/Raman) aside.
Very alarming....!!! Need more in-depth research to find out the solution to micro and nano plastic pollution.
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