Relevant and Realistic Assessments of Micro‐ and Nanoplastics in the Environment

Micro- and nanoplastics effects in a multiple stressed marine environment

“…translocate ( Al-Sid-Cheikh et al, 2018 ;Clark et al, 2022 ). Exposure of organisms to NPs raises therefore further concerns beyond gut blockage or starvation induction ( Paul-Pont et al, 2018 ), but once more the large majority of current NP effect assessments lacks environmental relevance, even if elucidating for modes of action ( Asselman, 2022 ). The first steps to estimate risk assessment of NPs have taken place, with the derivation of species sensitivity distributions (SSDs), essential in estimating a hazardous concentration for 5% of the species (HC5) ( Takeshita et al, 2022 ).…”