The hypothesis that ‘microplastic will transfer hazardous hydrophobic organic chemicals (HOC)
to marine animals’ has been central to the perceived hazard and risk of plastic in the …

Microplastics are omnipresent in the marine environment and sediments are hypothesized
to be major sinks of these plastics. Here, over 100 articles spanning the last 50 year are …

During recent years, the biotic ligand model (BLM) has been proposed as a tool to evaluate
quantitatively the manner in which water chemistry affects the speciation and biological …

Microplastics are present throughout the marine environment and ingestion of these plastic
particles (<1 mm) has been demonstrated in a laboratory setting for a wide array of marine …

Microplastics are small plastic particles (<1 mm) originating from the degradation of larger
plastic debris. These microplastics have been accumulating in the marine environment for …

Plastic debris is known to undergo fragmentation at sea, which leads to the formation of
microscopic particles of plastic; the so called ‘microplastics’. Due to their buoyant and persistent …

Microplastics have been reported in marine environments worldwide. Accurate assessment
of quantity and type is therefore needed. Here, we propose new techniques for extracting …

We studied the uptake of microplastics under field conditions. At six locations along the
French–Belgian–Dutch coastline we collected two species of marine invertebrates representing …

The Cellular Energy Allocation (CEA) methodology wasdeveloped as biomarker technique
to assess the effectof toxic stress on the energy budget of testorganisms. This short-term …

The EU-funded project IDEA aimed to evaluate (a) what parameters and endpoints allow
the detection of endocrine-mediated developmental and reproductive effects of (xeno)…