Plastic cutting boards as a source of microplastics in meat

Habib, Rana Zeeshan; Poulose, Vijo; Alsaidi, Rana; Kendi, Ruwaya Al; Iftikhar, Syed Haris; Mourad, Abdel‐Hamid I.; Kittaneh, Wajeeh Fares; Thiemann, Thies

doi:10.1080/19440049.2021.2017002

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“…The wearing out of the plastic boards is due to the flaking off of plastic pieces from the cutting board, as described above, which can at the very end affect the structural integrity of the cutting board itself. Previously, the authors noted that typically as much as 875 g polythene could be lost at the end of a cutting board’s lifetime, in the case of cutting goat meat, that equates to 400 kg of meat cut on the board [ 35 ]. It must be noted, however, that the mechanical tests showed that the plastic cutting boards are quite durable, with a low wear rate of 0.284–0.393 mm 3 .…”

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“…Digestion . The digestion follows a published procedure [ 35 ]. In a single necked flask (500 mL) with a stopper, the (chicken/fish) meat sample (8–12.5 g) was added to an aqueous KOH solution (1 g KOH in 10 mL distilled H 2 O per 1 g of meat), and the mixture was stirred at a fixed temperature of 75 °C for 10 h. Fish samples (4–36.5 g) were digested analogously.…”

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“…Recently, we published our finding that the commercial processing of goat meat and beef on plastic cutting boards leads to microplastic contamination of the meat [ 35 ]. Meanwhile, Dawson et al have reported on store-bought seafood in Australia that exhibited far more MP contamination than wild-caught seafood.…”

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“…At least in one case, this was attributed to plastic cutting boards [ 36 ]. In contrast to microplastic ingested by organisms such as by fish, much of the microplastic issuing from the cutting boards lodges in the meat is often overlooked, cannot be easily removed from the produce by washing, and may change its properties during the cooking process [ 35 ]. The current contribution widens our previous findings on MP contamination of shop-bought produce to encompass fish and chicken meat bought in markets both in the United Arab Emirates and Kuwait.…”

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Microplastic Contamination of Chicken Meat and Fish through Plastic Cutting Boards

Habib

Kindi

Salem

et al. 2022

IJERPH

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Microplastic contamination was found in fish and chicken bought on the market, in food stores and in chain supermarkets in the Middle East with the contamination ranging from 0.03 ± 0.04 to 1.19 ± 0.72 particles per gram of meat in chicken and from 0.014 ± 0.024 to 2.6 ± 2.8 particles per gram in fish. Only one fish was found to be free of microplastic. The source of the microplastic was established to be the polythene-based plastic cutting board the food was cut on. More microplastic contamination was found in food cut from the bone than in cut fillets when the fillets themselves were prepared on surfaces other than plastic. Washing the fish and chicken before food preparation decreased but did not completely remove the microplastic contamination. The fate of the microplastic in grilled fish was studied. The mechanical properties of typical plastic cutting boards commercially used in the markets were investigated in the form of tensile, hardness, and wear tests. Overall, the plastic cutting boards showed similar wear rates.

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Microplastic Contamination of Chicken Meat and Fish through Plastic Cutting Boards

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Kindi

Salem

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“…The sample was measured in the temperature range of 25˚C -300˚C at a heating rate of 10˚C/min under a constant flow of N 2 (50mL/min). Data analysis was performed using the LabSolutions TA software [39].…”

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Analysis of the Solid Contents of Toothpastes Available in UAE (United Arab Emirates) Markets

Elkashlan¹,

Poulose²,

Habib³

et al. 2022

JEP

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In order to find out whether any toothpastes commercially available in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) carry microplastic content in form of plastic microbeads, the filterable solid contents of 31 toothpastes from UAE markets and 2 toothpastes imported from Syria were analyzed. FT-IR studies of the solids revealed that the major solid components were hydrated silica and calcium carbonate, where the individual toothpaste product exhibited either one or the other as the dominant constituent. Titrimetric analysis of the alkalinity of the ash of the toothpastes was carried out. The solids, ashed at 600˚C were subjected to FT-IR and EDS (energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopic) analysis. The ash of some of the products was shown to have TiO 2 and Ca 3 (PO 4 ) 2 as minor components. Mostly organic dyes were used as colorants; however, iron oxide (Fe 2 O 3 ) was also found. Importantly, none of the toothpastes carried any solid microplastic particles. Only 3 toothpastes carried microbeads at all, which were made of either silica or microcrystalline cellulose. This finding indicates that toothpastes, at least in the UAE, are no longer a significant source of microplastic in the environment. The results were compared to a toothpaste bought through the internet with a formulation from 2014, which exhibited polythene microplastic at 1.31 ± 0.39 w% of the filterable solid content.

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A contribution to the harmonization of microplastic analysis in beverages and food

Weißer,

Hofmann

2024

Lebensmittelchemie

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Sampling, sample preparation and particle detection are the key steps in microplastics (MP) analysis. In order to harmonize MP analysis, implementing strict measures for quality assurance and control (QA/QC) for all steps is key. However, especially QA and QC for the analysis of hyperspectral MP data has remained widely neglected. To fill this gap, a transparent and detailed QA/QC method for data analysis based on the automated evaluation of a ground truth reference image is presented.

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Plastic cutting boards as a source of microplastics in meat

Cited by 36 publications

References 61 publications

Microplastic Contamination of Chicken Meat and Fish through Plastic Cutting Boards

Microplastic Contamination of Chicken Meat and Fish through Plastic Cutting Boards

Analysis of the Solid Contents of Toothpastes Available in UAE (United Arab Emirates) Markets

A contribution to the harmonization of microplastic analysis in beverages and food

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