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INTEGRATED ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT AND MANAGEMENT
Volume 13, Issue 3, Pages 494-499Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/ieam.1906
Keywords
Microplastics; Additives; UV stabilizers; Antioxidants; Flame retardants
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- Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries, Korea
- National Research Foundation of Korea [2015R1A2A04003958]
- Korea Institute of Marine Science & Technology Promotion (KIMST) [201502482] Funding Source: Korea Institute of Science & Technology Information (KISTI), National Science & Technology Information Service (NTIS)
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Despite a recent boom in research on the environmental fate, distribution, and harmful effects of chemical substances associated with marine plastic debris, no consensus has been reached on whether chemicals originating from microplastics cause serious environmental harm. For the risk assessment of chemical contaminants associated with microplastics, it would be useful to group organic chemicals into 2 categories: additives and nonadditives. Whereas plastic particles are not likely to be diffuse sources of chemicals that are not intentionally added to plastic products, continuous leaching of additives would result in higher concentrations, at least at a local scale. Unlike plasticizers and flame retardants, which have been relatively well investigated, antioxidants and photostabilizers have been rarely studied, even though many of them are highly hydrophobic and are not readily biodegradable. More research on the fate and effects of chemicals via microplastics should focus on those additives. Integr Environ Assess Manag 2017;13:494-499. (c) 2017 SETAC
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