Acronym NA
Category
Aquaculture
Title Effects of micro/nanoplastics and contaminated micro/nanoplastics on food safety of fish Programme National Programme
Instrument (FP6)
Contact Type (FP7)
Strand (Interreg)
NA
Theme (FP7)
Activity Area (FP6)
Regional Area (Interreg)
Action (COST)
NA
Specific Programme (FP7)
NA
Funding source National Coordinator Wei Wang Coordinator email NA
Coordinator institution
UiB - University of Bergen (Norway)
Institutions involved
NA - Not available (Norway) ,
Start year 2021 End year 2024 Funding (€) € 500,000 Website https://prosjektbanken.forskningsradet.no/en/project/FORISS/320456?Kilde=FORISS&distribution=Ar&chart=bar&calcType=funding&Sprak=no&sortBy=date&sortOrder=desc&resultCount=30&offset=390&Departement=Kunnskapsdepartementet&Departement=Kunnskapsdepartementet+%E2%80%93+sektorovergripende&source=FORISS&projectId=315870 Summary Plastics have a high affinity for fat-soluble contaminants that binds to the surface. Microplastics have a high surface-to-volume ratio, and microplastics can therefore act as a vector for pollutants from the surrounding environment, trapping them and allowing them to move around the environment, and be ingested by animals. The result from our study will partially answer the question of how the pollutants adsorb on microplastics, whether the small microplastics adsorb more pollutants than larger microplastics, and how fast microplastics adsorb organic pollutants. Microplastics can inhibit growth and body development, affect feeding and fish behavior, cause reproductive toxicity and immunotoxicity, genetic damages, etc. However, many of these observations lack systematic investigation in a controlled environment. In order to scientifically document effects, our project will add microplastics with known chemical pollutants and quantitively study the effect of these chemicals and microplastics on fish growth. The size of microplastics has a direct impact on their migration in the aquatic environment and whether they will be ingested by organisms. With the development of extraction and identification technology, the size of detectable microplastics is getting smaller and smaller. However, we still need new technologies and detective methods to efficiently extract and identify microplastics. To extract and identify nanoplastics is especially difficult, and so far, we do not have good methods to quantify them. Therefore, we will put our effort into developing new technology and detective methods and trying to identify smaller microplastics in the micrometer range.
Keywords
Impacts;
Fish biology;
Food safety;
Microplastics;
Fish;
Technology;
Marine Region
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