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Microplastics and human health

1266 Citations2021
A. Dick Vethaak, Juliette Legler

The ubiquity of microplastics in the global biosphere raises increasing concerns about their implications for human health, but whether these contaminants pose a substantial risk to human health is far from understood.

Abstract

<jats:p>Knowledge gaps should be addressed to ascertain the health risks of microplastics</jats:p>