Discovery and solution for microplastics: New risk carriers in food

IF 8.5 1区农林科学 Q1 CHEMISTRY, APPLIED

Food Chemistry Pub Date : 2025-01-05 DOI:10.1016/j.foodchem.2025.142784

Qi Zhang , Xin Wang , Yang Chen , Guangchun Song , Hao Zhang , Kunlun Huang , Yunbo Luo , Nan Cheng

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Microplastics (MPs), as a kind of plastic particles with an equal volume size of less than 5 mm, similar to PM2.5 in the air, are causing severe contamination issues in food. Along with the food chain accumulation, they have been confirmed to appear in daily foods and cause serious health risks to the organisms. However, there were no unifying national and local policies on separating, extracting, and detecting MPs in food, which is an essential and imperative early-warning strategy. This review carefully and comprehensively summarized the validated contaminated food, physical and chemical characteristics, extraction methods, traditional and rapid detection techniques, as well as degradation methods of MPs. We thoroughly analyzed the differences among these traditional strategies, and innovatively generalized the existing rapid detection techniques for MPs. Finally, the shortcomings of existing research were discussed, and the possibility of novel rapid and intelligent detection techniques for MPs in food was proposed.

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微塑料的发现和解决方案：食品中的新风险载体

微塑料（MPs）是一种体积大小小于5 毫米的塑料颗粒，类似于空气中的PM2.5，正在造成严重的食品污染问题。随着食物链的积累，它们已被证实出现在日常食物中，并对生物体造成严重的健康风险。然而，在食品中多聚物的分离、提取和检测方面，国家和地方尚无统一的政策，而多聚物的分离、提取和检测是必不可少的预警策略。本文详细、全面地综述了已验证的污染食品、MPs的理化特性、提取方法、传统和快速检测技术以及降解方法。我们深入分析了这些传统策略之间的差异，并创新地推广了现有的MPs快速检测技术。最后，讨论了现有研究的不足，并提出了食品中MPs快速智能检测技术的可能性。

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Food Chemistry 工程技术-食品科技

CiteScore

16.30

自引率

10.20%

发文量

3130

审稿时长

122 days

期刊介绍： Food Chemistry publishes original research papers dealing with the advancement of the chemistry and biochemistry of foods or the analytical methods/ approach used. All papers should focus on the novelty of the research carried out.