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Interested to know what happens to the microplastics that you eat??

Catch Nur Hazimah defend her thesis titled: Microplastics' Journey into the Gut (Human exposure to microplastics and associated...

New doctors in the microplasticlab group

Congratualations are in order! The microplasticlab group is proud to announce the graduation of two dear PhD fellows: Paula Redondo...

New papers on plastic ingestion and properties

No less than 3 new papers have been published recently! Paula Redondo Hasselerharm and co-workers studied the uptake of metal-doped...

Microplastic science communication

Workshop that illustrates how SAPEA communicated the absence of evidence of risk from microplastics to human health. This is followed by...

We eat about 0.0041 mg of microplastics per week (only about a grain of salt)!

Learn more about the variability of microplastic intake and accumulation in humans globally over a lifetime from nine known intake media...

Microplastic workshop lecture at Rijkswaterstaat

Bart Koelmans discusses about microplastics and the risks to animals and humans. Have the risks been scientifically proven? What negative...

Podcast on Science for Policy

Bart Koelmans discusses on how to communicate risk and uncertainty to policymakers. He also discusses the strength of evidence for harm...

A common language for environmental microplastics

How to address microplastics as one environmental material? We share the latest microplastic concept to correct for the diversity of...

Quality criteria for microplastic effect studies

A set of quality criteria has been developed for microplastic effect studies to assess the weight of evidence with respect to effect...