A peak comparison index approach for robust microplastic analysis across environmental matrices: validation using meat products
Saber Entezari, Hossein Ganjidoust, Yadollah Yamini, Bita Ayati · 2025
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Saber Entezari, Hossein Ganjidoust, Yadollah Yamini, and Bita Ayati published a study in 2025 on a fairer way to prepare meat samples for microplastic hunting. Finding plastic specks in food takes dissolving everything else away, but harsh digestion can also scar the plastics and corrupt the count. The team compared four digestion recipes on meat spiked with three common plastics.
Acid and alkali recipes cleared the most organic matter while keeping the plastics intact. The authors add a new score, the peak comparison index, which rates how much a recipe warps the plastics' spectral fingerprints. By that score the alkali recipe disturbed the plastics least. A shared yardstick like this could help labs in different countries produce counts that can actually be compared.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Saber Entezari, Hossein Ganjidoust, Yadollah Yamini, Bita Ayati |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 24 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |