Out of sight but not out of mind: Size fractionation of plastics bioaccumulated by field deployed oysters

Francisca Ribeiro; Elvis D. Okoffo; Jake W. O’Brien; Stacey O’Brien; Jonathan M. Harris; Saer Samanipour; Sarit Kaserzon; Jochen F. Mueller; Tamara Galloway; Kevin V. Thomas

Journal of Hazardous Materials Letters (Nov 2021)

Out of sight but not out of mind: Size fractionation of plastics bioaccumulated by field deployed oysters

Francisca Ribeiro,
Elvis D. Okoffo,
Jake W. O’Brien,
Stacey O’Brien,
Jonathan M. Harris,
Saer Samanipour,
Sarit Kaserzon,
Jochen F. Mueller,
Tamara Galloway,
Kevin V. Thomas

Affiliations

Francisca Ribeiro: Queensland Alliance for Environmental Health Sciences (QAEHS), The University of Queensland, 20 Cornwall Street, Woolloongabba, QLD, 4102, Australia; College of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Exeter, Geoffrey Pope Building, EX4 4QD, Stocker Road, Exeter, UK; Corresponding author at: Queensland Alliance for Environmental Health Sciences (QAEHS), The University of Queensland, 20 Cornwall Street, Woolloongabba, QLD, 4102, Australia.
Elvis D. Okoffo: Queensland Alliance for Environmental Health Sciences (QAEHS), The University of Queensland, 20 Cornwall Street, Woolloongabba, QLD, 4102, Australia
Jake W. O’Brien: Queensland Alliance for Environmental Health Sciences (QAEHS), The University of Queensland, 20 Cornwall Street, Woolloongabba, QLD, 4102, Australia
Stacey O’Brien: Queensland Alliance for Environmental Health Sciences (QAEHS), The University of Queensland, 20 Cornwall Street, Woolloongabba, QLD, 4102, Australia
Jonathan M. Harris: School of Biomedical Sciences, Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, QLD 4059, Australia
Saer Samanipour: Queensland Alliance for Environmental Health Sciences (QAEHS), The University of Queensland, 20 Cornwall Street, Woolloongabba, QLD, 4102, Australia; Van’t Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences, University of Amsterdam, 1098 XH Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Sarit Kaserzon: Queensland Alliance for Environmental Health Sciences (QAEHS), The University of Queensland, 20 Cornwall Street, Woolloongabba, QLD, 4102, Australia
Jochen F. Mueller: Queensland Alliance for Environmental Health Sciences (QAEHS), The University of Queensland, 20 Cornwall Street, Woolloongabba, QLD, 4102, Australia
Tamara Galloway: College of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Exeter, Geoffrey Pope Building, EX4 4QD, Stocker Road, Exeter, UK
Kevin V. Thomas: Queensland Alliance for Environmental Health Sciences (QAEHS), The University of Queensland, 20 Cornwall Street, Woolloongabba, QLD, 4102, Australia

Journal volume & issue: Vol. 2
p. 100021

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Microplastics contamination has been widely reported in filter feeders yet the 22 μm fraction (Ʃ0.1 mg/g). μFT-IR identified 0.2 particles/g tissue but was limited to particles >150 μm in size. Our results clearly show that an important size fraction of microplastics is being overlooked in almost all studies published to date that rely on FTIR for polymer identification.

Published in Journal of Hazardous Materials Letters

ISSN: 2666-9110 (Online)
Publisher: Elsevier
Country of publisher: Netherlands
LCC subjects: Technology: Environmental technology. Sanitary engineering: Hazardous substances and their disposal
Website: https://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-hazardous-materials-letters

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