Majority of potable water microplastics are smaller than the 20 µm EU methodology limit for consumable water quality
Oskar Hagelskjær,
Frederik Hagelskjær,
Henar Margenat
et al.
Abstract:Microplastic (MP) content in nutrition including potable water is unregulated, although MP concentrations in bottled water can diverge by several orders of magnitude. The EU Directive 2020/2184 on consumable water quality recently proposed methodological approaches to the detection of MPs in potable water in the size range of 20-5000 µm. However, small MPs in the 1-20 µm range are far more likely to pass the human intestine into blood and organs. We therefore investigated MP concentrations down to 1 µm in ten … Show more
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