Microplastics and Anthropogenic Particles in Recreationally Caught Freshwater Fish from an Urbanized Region of the North American Great Lakes

Technique: Raman

Applications: Environmental, Food & Cosmetics

Products: KnowItAll Raman Spectral Library, KnowItAll Software

Fish caught in the Humber Bay region of Lake Ontario have been found to contain anthropogenic particles (including microplastics) which could then be consumed by humans. This study quantified and characterized the contaminants.

Spectra obtained using spectroscopy were matched to library spectra using the Wiley KnowItAll and ID Expert spectral matching software from the KnowItAll Raman Spectral Library, as well as the Spectral Library of Plastic Particles (SloPP and SloPP-E).

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