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SPECTROCHIMICA ACTA PART A-MOLECULAR AND BIOMOLECULAR SPECTROSCOPY
Volume 260, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.saa.2021.119985
Keywords
Polymers; Contamination; Microplastics; Infrared; Fish; Seafood; Machine learning
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This study successfully identified different types of microplastics in fish and seafood samples using ATR-MIR spectroscopy and machine learning techniques, demonstrating the effectiveness of this approach in directly analyzing microplastic adulteration in fleshy foods.
The objective of this study was to assess the ability of utilizing attenuated total reflection mid-infrared (ATR-MIR) spectroscopy in combination with machine learning techniques to classify the presence of different types of microplastics in artificially adulterated fish and seafood samples. Different polymers namely poly-vinyl chloride (PVC), polycarbonate (PC), polystyrene (PS), polypropylene (PP) and low (LDPE) and high-density polyethylene (HDPE) were mixed with homogenized fish and seafood samples. Homogenized samples were analyzed using MIR spectroscopy and classification models developed using machine learning algorithms such as partial least squares discriminant analysis (PLS-DA). The results of this study revealed that it was possible to identify between adulterated and non-adulterated samples as well as the different microplastic types added to the homogenized samples using ATR-MIR spectroscopy. This study confirmed the ability of combining machine learning methods with ATR-MIR spectroscopy to directly analyze microplastic adulteration in fleshy foods such as fish and seafood. This proof-of-concept study can be utilized and extended to monitor the presence of plastics either in a wide range of fleshy foods or along the entire food value chain. (c) 2021 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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