Microplastics from food packaging: An overview of human consumption, health threats, and alternative solutions

EB Jadhav, MS Sankhla, RA Bhat, DS Bhagat�- …�, Monitoring & Management, 2021 - Elsevier
Microplastic (MP) accumulation in the environment and its contamination in food products
has become a global threat to both environmental and human health. But nowadays, the
heavy use of plastic food containers, plastic packaging, plastic bottles, disposable cups,
infant feeders, plastic-coated metal, and paper cartons has provoked the issue with direct
contact and release of plastic flaking into food items. People store, transport, prepare, and
consume food in plastic containers, but they aren't aware of the leaching plastic from�…