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ECOTOXICOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL SAFETY
Volume 190, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoenv.2019.110066
Keywords
Plastic; Food security; Aquaculture; Trophic transfer; Biomagnification
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- Natural Environment Research Council through the EnvEast Doctoral Training Partnership [NE/L002582/1]
- Waitrose Plastic Plan Fund (Mussel Power)
- NERC [NE/L003988/1] Funding Source: UKRI
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Microplastic debris is a prevalent global pollutant that poses a risk to marine organisms and ecological processes. It is also suspected to pose a risk to marine food security; however, these risks are currently poorly understood. In this review, we seek to understand the current knowledge pertaining to the contamination of commercially important fished and farmed marine organisms with microplastics, with the aim of answering the question Does microplastic pollution pose a risk to marine food security?. A semi-systematic review of studies investigating the number of microplastics found in commercially important organisms of different trophic levels suggests that microplastics do not biomagnify, and that organisms at lower trophic levels are more likely to contaminated by microplastic pollution than apex predators. We address the factors that influence microplastic consumption and retention by organisms. This research has implications for food safety and highlights the risks of microplastics to fisheries and aquaculture, and identifies current knowledge gaps within this research field.
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