Abstract
Plastics are persistent in the environment and may be ingested by organisms where they may cause physical harm or release plastic additives. Monitoring is a crucial mechanism to assess the risk of plastics to the marine and terrestrial ecosystem. Unfortunately, due to unharmonised procedures, it remains difficult to compare the results of different studies. This publication, as part of the Horizon project EUROqCHARM, aims to identify the properties of the available analytical processes and methods for the determination of plastics in biota. Based on a systematic review, reproducible analytical pipelines were examined and the technological readiness levels were assessed so that these methods may eventually (if not already) be incorporated into (harmonised) monitoring programs where biota are identified as indicators of plastic pollution.
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1 Flanders Research Institute for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Ostend, Belgium
2 Norwegian Institute for Water Research (NIVA), Oslo, Norway (GRID:grid.6407.5) (ISNI:0000 0004 0447 9960)
3 Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark (GRID:grid.7048.b) (ISNI:0000 0001 1956 2722)
4 Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Barcelona, Spain (GRID:grid.4711.3) (ISNI:0000 0001 2183 4846)
5 Norwegian Institute for Water Research (NIVA), Copenhagen, Denmark (GRID:grid.4711.3)
6 Flanders Research Institute for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Ostend, Belgium (GRID:grid.4711.3)
7 Alfred Wegener Institute, Bremerhaven, Germany (GRID:grid.10894.34) (ISNI:0000 0001 1033 7684)
8 National Research Council, Institute Marine Science, Lerici, Italy (GRID:grid.5326.2) (ISNI:0000 0001 1940 4177)
9 Flanders Research Institute for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Ostend, Belgium (GRID:grid.5326.2)