Assuring quality in microplastic monitoring: About the value of clean-air devices as essentials for verified data.

ABSTRACT: Avoiding aerial microfibre contamination of environmental samples is essential for reliable analyses when it comes to the detection of ubiquitous microplastics. Almost all laboratories have contamination problems which are largely unavoidable without investments in clean-air devices. Therefore, our study supplies an approach to assess background microfibre contamination of samples in the laboratory under particle-free air conditions. We tested aerial contamination of samples indoor, in a mobile laboratory, within a laboratory fume hood and on a clean bench with particles filtration during the examining process of a fish. The used clean bench reduced aerial microfibre contamination in our laboratory by 96.5%. This highlights the value of suitable clean-air devices for valid microplastic pol

SUBMITTER: Wesch C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5511265 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature