Microplastics contamination in selected staple consumer food products.

ABSTRACT: The use of plastics in the manufacturing of food products is of concern as microplastics (MPs, 1 µm to 5 mm) find their way into food which poses risks to human health. This study is the first to report detection of MPs in selected staple food products in the Philippines, specifically sea salt, white and brown sugar, fish sauce, and rice. Raman microspectroscopy was used to identify the MPs and pigment additives. The mean MP concentration was 471 MPs kg^-1 with 71% identified as polyvinyl chloride (PVC) for salt, 20 MPs kg^-1 with 67% polyethylene terephthalate (PET) for white sugar, 67 MPs kg^-1 with 77% polypropylene (PP) for brown sugar, 3 MPs L^-1 for fish sauce, and 5 MPs kg^-1 with 100% PET for cooked rice. For sea salt, the highest M

SUBMITTER: Espiritu EQ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11465004 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature