Environmental science and pollution research internationalIndiaVegetablesMicroplasticsFood SafetyEnvironmental Monitoring
Is our food safe? Microplastic occurrence and characteristics in vegetables cultivated in the vicinity of a municipal solid waste dumping ground-insights from Kolkata, India.
Kavya S Katnur, Sampurna Mondal, Praveen Tudu, Ujjal Das, Goutam Pramanik, Subarna Bhattacharyya, Swapnadeep Goswami, Aritra Banarjee, Anindita Chakraborty, Punarbasu Chaudhuri
Published: 202510.1007/s11356-025-37267-6
Abstract
The propagation of plastic pollution has triggered widespread microplastics (MPs) contamination, increasingly being detected across diverse ecosystems, including agricultural landscapes. However, there is a critical knowledge gap regarding MP contami…
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