Advancing pyrolysis-gas chromatography-mass spectrometry for the accurate quantification of micro- and nanoplastics in human blood
Federica Nardella, Marthinus Brits, Martin J M van Velzen, Lorenzo Scibetta, Amanda Durkin, Roel Vermeulen, Frederic Béen, Sicco H Brandsma, Marja H Lamoree · 2025
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Nardella, Lamoree and their co-authors improve a method to measure tiny plastic bits in human blood in 2025. Knowing how much micro- and nanoplastic people carry is key to judging exposure and health risk, but blood is a hard sample to test.
Their method heats samples and reads the gases that come off, using full scan data rather than a narrow mode. They measured six common plastics in more than one hundred blood samples, with strict quality checks. Plastic was found in all samples, most often one common type. The team says full scan data also allow later re-checks of past runs.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Federica Nardella, Marthinus Brits, Martin J M van Velzen, Lorenzo Scibetta, Amanda Durkin, Roel Vermeulen, Frederic Béen, Sicco H Brandsma, Marja H Lamoree |
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| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 33 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |