Plastic in north sea fish.

By E. Foekema, C. De Gruijter, M. Mergia, J. V. van Franeker, A. Murk, A. Koelmans. Environmental Science and Technology, 2013

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Subfields: Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Pollution

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Citations in the corpus

Microplastic contamination in brown shrimp (Crangon crangon, Linnaeus 1758) from coastal waters of the Southern North Sea and Channel area. (2015, neutral): “2 mm Foekema et al. (2013)”
Size matters more than shape: Ingestion of primary and secondary microplastics by small predators (2018, background): “5% of the studied fishes having ingested plastic particles (Boerger et al., 2010; Foekema et al., 2013; Lusher et al., 2013; Avio et al., 2015; Liboiron et al., 2016; Rummel et al., 2016).”
Extraction of microplastic from biota: recommended acidic digestion destroys common plastic polymers (2017, background): “, 2014) or potassium hydroxide (KOH; Foekema et al., 2013); alkaline cleaning agents (Strand and Tairova, 2015); concentrated acids such as nitric acid or hydrochloric acid (HNO3, HCl; Claessens et al.”
Presence of microplastics and nanoplastics in food, with particular focus on seafood (2016, positive): “Air flow cabinets have also been used to prevent contamination (Foekema et al., 2013; Van Cauwenberghe and Janssen, 2014).”
Microplastics in Fish and Shellfish – A Threat to Seafood Safety? (2020, background): “Foekema et al. (2013) reported that none of 84 Atlantic mackerel and only 2% of 566 Atlantic herring caught in the North Sea contained microplastics in the gut.”
Airborne microplastics: Consequences to human health? (2018, neutral): “They have already been detected in water (Dris et al., 2015; Eriksen et al., 2014; Van Sebille et al., 2015), sediment (Browne et al., 2011; Frias et al., 2016) and several species of organisms (Davidson and Asch, 2011; Foekema et al., 2013; Vandermeersch et al., 2015).”
Plastic debris in the open ocean (2014, background): “Textile fibers were found only occasionally and were excluded from the analysis because they could be airborne contamination from clothing during the sampling or processing (31).”
Microplastics are taken up by mussels (Mytilus edulis) and lugworms (Arenicola marina) living in natural habitats. (2015, methodology): “As sample processing was not performed in a laminar flow cabinet (as in Foekema et al. (2013) and Van Cauwenberghe and Janssen (2014)) contamination with airborne fibres could not excluded.”
Plastic ingestion by estuarine mullet Mugil cephalus (Mugilidae) in an urban harbour, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa (2016, methodology): “To determine whether contamination was a confounding factor under laboratory conditions (see Davison and Asch 2011; Foekema et al. 2013), three replicates of empty Petri dishes were situated as follows: (i) open on the bench top; (ii) open in the desiccator; and (iii) covered with another dish, in…”