Part I: The Contaminants of the 21st Century: An Introduction to Microplastics 1. Plastics in the Agricultural Field 2. Plastics in the Food Sector 3. Principle Plastic Polymers in Agricultural and Food Sectors 4. From Plastics to Microplastics Part II: Analytical Methodologies for Microplastics Determination: between Limitations and Innovations 5. Sampling Methods for Microplastics Determination 6. Pre-treatment of Food and Agricultural Matrices for Microplastics Extraction 7. Analytical Methodologies for Qualification of Microplastics 8.
Quantification of Microplastics: A Call for Method Harmonization 9. Polymer Solubilization: A Potential Solution for Microplastics Quantification 10. Quality Assurance and Quality Control: The Prevention of Airborne Contamination Part III: Microplastics in agriculture 11. Microplastics Contamination in Soil 12. Microplastics Contamination in Crops 13. Artificial Crop Irrigation and Microplastics 14. Microplastics and Agricultural Vehicle Tires 15. Fertilizers and Microplastics Contamination of Crops 16.
Atmospheric Particulates and Microplastics Part IV: Microplastics in farm animals 17. Feed Production Process and Microplastics Contamination 18. Microplastics in Farm Animals: Health Effects 19. Microplastics: From Animal to Human Part V: Microplastics in the food sector 20. Food Processing and microplastics 21. Food Packaging and Potential Microplastics Release 22. Food Pyramid and Microplastics Part VI: Human exposure to microplastics 23. Are We Eating Microplastics? 24.
Microplastics in Food Production and Agricultural Environments Part VII: Contaminants associated with microplastics 25. Microplastics and plasticizers 26. Microplastics and organic contaminants 27. Microplastics and inorganic contaminants Part IIX: Fate of microplastics and toxicological studies 28. Translocation of microplastics in human tissue 29. Microplastics and potential damage to human cells 30. 3-D models for studing microplastics effects on humans Part IX: Additional Topics and Considerations 31. Use of agricultural products as bio-indicators 32.
Potential solutions in the agriculture and food sector 33. Regulatory Gaps in Microplastics Field in food and agriculture sectors.