Confronting plastic pollution to protect environmental and public health

A new collection of evidence-based commentaries explores critical challenges facing scientists and policymakers working to address the potential environmental and health harms of microplastics. The commentaries reveal a pressing need to develop robust methods to detect, evaluate, and mitigate the im...

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Autores principales: Gross, Liza, Enck, Judith
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2021
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Editorial
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8009385/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33784292
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3001131
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spelling pubmed-80093852021-04-07 Confronting plastic pollution to protect environmental and public health Gross, Liza Enck, Judith PLoS Biol Editorial A new collection of evidence-based commentaries explores critical challenges facing scientists and policymakers working to address the potential environmental and health harms of microplastics. The commentaries reveal a pressing need to develop robust methods to detect, evaluate, and mitigate the impacts of this emerging contaminant, most recently found in human placentas. Public Library of Science 2021-03-30 /pmc/articles/PMC8009385/ /pubmed/33784292 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3001131 Text en © 2021 Gross, Enck http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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