Analysis of Microplastics in Human Feces Reveals a Correlation between Fecal Microplastics and Inflammatory Bowel Disease Status

Human ingestion of microplastics (MPs) is inevitable due to the ubiquity of MPs in various foods and drinking water. Whether the ingestion of MPs poses a substantial risk to human health is far from understood. Here, by analyzing the characteristics of MPs in the feces of patients with inflammatory...

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Published in:	Environmental science & technology Vol. 56; no. 1; p. 414
Main Authors:	Yan, Zehua, Liu, Yafei, Zhang, Ting, Zhang, Faming, Ren, Hongqiang, Zhang, Yan
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	United States 04.01.2022
Subjects:	Environmental Monitoring - methods Feces - chemistry Humans Inflammatory Bowel Diseases Microplastics Plastics - analysis Water Pollutants, Chemical - analysis health risk microplastics source of exposure feces inflammatory bowel disease
ISSN:	1520-5851, 1520-5851
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