Strategy towards producing relevant and reliable data for the hazard assessment of micro- and nanoplastics in agricultural soils

Jemec Kokalj, Anita (author), Kalčíková, Gabriela (author), Selonen, Salla (author), Bosker, Thijs (author), Drobne, Damjana (author), Dvořáková, Darina (author), Hofman, Jakub (author), Hurley, Rachel (author), Kernchen, Sarmite (author), Laforsch, Christian (author), Löder, Martin G.J. (author), Loon, Sam van (author), Redondo-Hasselerharm, Paula E. (author), Saartama, Vili (author), Šmídová, Klára (author), Tsagkaris, Aristeidis S. (author), Zantis, Laura J. (author), Nizzetto, Luca (author), Gestel, Cornelis A. M. van (author)

Micro- and nanoplastics (MNPs) are widespread emerging contaminants with many potential direct and indirect effects on soil ecosystems. Ecological soil MNP hazard assessment is thus crucial for a proper risk assessment and the development of environmental protection regulations. However, current hazard assessment testing approaches are hampered by the absence of guidelines, harmonization, and standard reference materials. This article discusses the need for improving testing approaches and provides specific recommendations to increase the relevance and reliability of ecotoxicity data. Our recommendations focus on environmentally relevant experimental designs, guidelines for MNP test materials selection and characterization, analysis of MNPs and additives in soil and biota, and a proposal for relevant soil physicochemical properties to be assessed during ecotoxicity testing. This article brings novelty to the field of ecological hazard assessment of MNPs in soil by providing specific recommendations much needed in this field.

• Language: English
• Keywords: chemical additives, environmental relevance, guidelines, harmonization, microplastic characterization, soil invertebrates, plants, reference materials, risk assessment, quality assessment
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.02 - Review Article
• Organization: BF - Biotechnical Faculty; FKKT - Faculty of Chemistry and Chemical Technology
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Year: 2024
• Number of pages: 14 str.
• Numbering: Vol. 172, art. 117567
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-156214
• UDC: 504.5
• ISSN on article: 0165-9936
• DOI: 10.1016/j.trac.2024.117567
• COBISS.SI-ID: 185728771
• Publication date in RUL: 14.05.2024

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: TrAC. Trends in analytical chemistry
• Shortened title: TrAC, Trends anal. chem.
• Publisher: Elsevier
• ISSN: 0165-9936
• COBISS.SI-ID: 26556928

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• License: CC BY 4.0, Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
• Link: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Description: This is the standard Creative Commons license that gives others maximum freedom to do what they want with the work as long as they credit the author.

Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Keywords: mikroplastika, kmetijska zemlja, ocena tveganja