TORPP - Turtles, One Health Research & Plastic Pollution: A multidisciplinary consortium to evaluate the environmental and health impact of Micro/NanoPlastics (MNPs) pollution
A. Legrand,
G. Blanvillain,
T. Deschamps,
G. Chapelet,
F. Aubret,
L. Garrido,
S. Lecomte,
A. Martinez-Silvestre,
J.C. Auguet,
A. Sauvaget
Affiliations
A. Legrand
Nantes Université, CHU Nantes, Direction de La Recherche Et de L'Innovation, 44000 Nantes, France; Corresponding author.
G. Blanvillain
Biological Sciences Department, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA, USA
T. Deschamps
Nantes Université, CHU Nantes, Mouvement, Interactions, Performance, MIP, UR 4334, 44000 Nantes, France
G. Chapelet
Pole de gérontologie clinique, Centre hospitalier universitaire de Nantes, Nantes, France
F. Aubret
School of Agricultural, Environmental and Veterinary Sciences, Charles Sturt University, Port Macquarie, NSW 2444, Australia
L. Garrido
Fundación para la Conservación y Recuperación de Animales Marinos (CRAM), Barcelona, Spain
S. Lecomte
University of Bordeaux, CNRS, Bordeaux INP, CBMN UMR5248, Pessac, France
A. Martinez-Silvestre
Centre de Recuperació d'Amfibis i Rèptils de Catalunya (CRARC), Barcelona, Spain
J.C. Auguet
MARBEC, Université de Montpellier, CNRS, Ifremer, IRD, Montpellier, France
A. Sauvaget
Addictologie and psychiatrie de liaison, CHU de Nantes, 44000 Nantes, France; Laboratoire ''mouvement, interactions, performance'' (EA 4334), Faculté Sciences du sport, Université de Nantes, 44000 Nantes, France
Although the World Health Organization characterizes a One Health concern as one in which there is the capability to incorporate numerous disciplines to tackle health challenges threatening humans, animals and ecosystems, scientific efforts frequently remain compartmentalized. Here we report an original consortium, TORPP, spanning 16 disciplines, focused on Micro/NanoPlastics (MNPs) pollution as a One Health concern. Whereas the MNP topic has been largely studied in marine ecology, research effort remains scarce in human medicine. Equally, while marine ecology is highly skilled in MNP sampling and characterization, human medicine has developed pathophysiological concepts and tools that can be used more broadly to evaluate the health impact of MNPs. TORPP consortium propose that these strengths and knowledges must be transferred across fields of study to advance our understanding of MNP toxicity to organisms, by uniting integrative approaches (ecological, experimental and clinical) under a common conceptual and analytical framework.
