A critical review on the evaluation of toxicity and ecological risk assessment of plastics in the marine environment
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Date | 2023-10 | ||||||||
Language | English | ||||||||
Author(s) | Leistenschneider David1, 2, Wolinski Adèle2, 3, Cheng Jingguang1, Ter Halle Alexandra4, Duflos Guillaume5, Huvet Arnaud6, Paul-Pont Ika8, Lartaud Franck3, Galgani Francois7, Lavergne Édouard2, Meistertzheim Anne-Leila2, Ghiglione Jean-François1 | ||||||||
Affiliation(s) | 1 : CNRS, Sorbonne Université, UMR 7621, Laboratoire d'Océanographie Microbienne, Observatoire Océanologique de Banyuls, France 2 : SAS Plastic@Sea, Observatoire Océanologique de Banyuls, France 3 : Sorbonne Université, CNRS, UMR 8222, Laboratoire d'Écogéochimie des Environnements Benthiques, Observatoire Océanologique de Banyuls, France 4 : CNRS, Université de Toulouse, Laboratoire des Interactions Moléculaires et Réactivité Chimique et Photochimique (IMRCP), UMR, 5623, Toulouse, France 5 : Unité Physico-chimie des produits de la pêche et de l'aquaculture, ANSES, Boulogne-sur-Mer, France 6 : Univ Brest, Ifremer, CNRS, IRD, LEMAR, F-29280, Plouzané, France 7 : Unité Ressources marines en Polynésie Francaise, Institut français de recherche pour l'exploitation de la mer (Ifremer), Vairao, Tahiti, Polynésie francaise, French Polynesia 8 : Univ Brest, Ifremer, CNRS, IRD, LEMAR, F-29280, Plouzané, France |
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Source | Science Of The Total Environment (0048-9697) (Elsevier BV), 2023-10 , Vol. 896 , P. 164955 (15p.) | ||||||||
DOI | 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.164955 | ||||||||
WOS© Times Cited | 9 | ||||||||
Keyword(s) | Plastic debris, Microplastics, Nanoplastics, Ecotoxicity, Standards, Quality assessment | ||||||||
Abstract | The increasing production of plastics together with the insufficient waste management has led to massive pollution by plastic debris in the marine environment. Contrary to other known pollutants, plastic has the potential to induce three types of toxic effects: physical (e.g intestinal injuries), chemical (e.g leaching of toxic additives) and biological (e.g transfer of pathogenic microorganisms). This critical review questions our capability to give an effective ecological risk assessment, based on an ever-growing number of scientific articles in the last two decades acknowledging toxic effects at all levels of biological integration, from the molecular to the population level. Numerous biases in terms of concentration, size, shape, composition and microbial colonization revealed how toxicity and ecotoxicity tests are still not adapted to this peculiar pollutant. Suggestions to improve the relevance of plastic toxicity studies and standards are disclosed with a view to support future appropriate legislation. |
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