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

Yan, Zehua; Liu, Yafei; Zhang, Ting; Zhang, Faming; Ren, Hongqiang; Zhang, Yan

doi:10.1021/acs.est.1c03924

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

Published in Environmental Science & Technology • Dec 22, 2021

Authors:

Zehua Yan

Yafei Liu

Ting Zhang

Abstract

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 ...

Subject

Microplastics

Feces

Ingestion

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