Combatting Microplastic Pollution: CUSP’s Work Highlights the Importance of Research for Informing EU Policy
Microplastic pollution has emerged as a critical environmental challenge, with its pervasive presence threatening ecosystems and human...
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Micro- and Nanoplastics and Public Health: Key Insights and Implications
The CUSP partners have just announced the launch of the latest policy brief on the health impacts of micro- and nanoplastics (MNPs),...
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Ground-breaking Study Reveals How Micro- and Nanoplastics Affect Human Immune Cells
Plastic pollution has become a global concern, with micro- and nanoplastics (MNPs) infiltrating various ecosystems, including the human...
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MAELSTROM One Ocean, One Health Welcomes PlasticsFatE's Perspective
PlasticsFatE’s Scientific Coordinator, Rudolf Reuther, has been praised for his highly informative input to the recently held MAELSTROM...
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CUSP: Join us at SETAC 2024 in two major sessions
Are you coming to SETAC EUROPE 2024? If so, don't miss CUSP partners and presentations at our two major events: The Fate and Effects of...
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Exploring the Impact of Micro & Nanoplastics on Intestinal Health: Insights from Cutting-Edge Research Presented at the Society of Toxicology
At the recent Society of Toxicology conference in Salt Lake City, Meike Van der Zande, a PlasticsFatE researcher from Wageningen Food...
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Seas of Plastic - PlasticsFatE partner Gaiker explains hazards on TV
PlasticsFatE partner Alberto Katsumitis from Gaiker recently featured on the Spanish EITB TV programme Teknopolis, in which he was...
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Microplastics are not microplastics – physical properties matter for their interactions with cells
Source: University of Bayreuth, Press Release No. 014/2024, 01.02.2024 New findings from a research team at the Collaborative Research...
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CUSP Early Career Researchers Share Progress and Launch Videos
On November 21-22, 2023, Early Career Researchers within the CUSP consortium came together for a virtual exchange in which they...
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How do you Solve a Problem like Micro and Nanoplastics? Insights from our World Café
PlasticsFatE has been funded by the EU to improve our understanding of the fate and effects of micro and nanoplastics (MNPs) and...
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CUSP Takes a Voyage around HaDEA
The CUSP Cluster, represented by Rudolf Reuther (ENAS, PlasticsFatE Scientific Coordinator) as Coordinator 2023-2024, was recently...
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SETAC 2024 - Call for Abstracts
Are you conducting research into fate and effects of MNPs in relation to human exposure from early life to adulthood? The CUSP Cluster is...
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CUSP scientists interviewed on their research: Can microplastics carry infectious diseases?
The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) interviews CUSP researchers from the PlasticsFatE and Imptox projects as they...
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Summertime Reading! PlasticsFatE's Newsletter is out
PlasticsFatE has had a packed six months and this issue - downloadable from Zenodo - brings you a summary of our research developments...
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PlasticsFatE's Progress at the End of Year Two
In this news item, we provide an update of recent research and results as we embark on the third year of our project. PlasticsFatE has...
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CUSP 2023 International Conference
Planning is well underway for this year's CUSP International Conference, to be held in Utrecht, the Netherlands on Thursday 14th...
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PlasticsFatE Partners Team up in Oslo
Over two intensive and dynamic days in June, the PlasticsFatE partners met up to present and discuss the developments in the project and...
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Advances in hazard assessment of micro- and nanoplastics and contaminants in humans
Nine early career researchers from PlasticsFatE attended a training workshop organized by STAMI following the PlasticsFatE General...
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Collaborations with PlasticTrace and ILSI to improve understanding of MNPs for food safety
PlasticsFatE is happy to announce that we are forming new collaborations with the PlasticTrace project and the ILSI network. The...
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UN Environment Programme report: Chemicals in Plastics
The UN Environment Programme has recently published a report that provides a succinct overview of our knowledge on chemicals in plastics....
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PlasticsFatE Coordinator - Rudolf Reuther - speaks to Greenpeace Magazine
PlasticsFatE's Scientific Coordinator, Rudolf Reuther, was recently interviewed by Greenpeace Magazine in Germany for the latest issue....
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German Research Foundation (DFG) extends CRC 'Microplastics' at University of Bayreuth
The German Research Foundation (DFG) will again fund the Collaborative Research Center 1357 'Microplastics' at the University of Bayreuth...
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New Research Output: Microbial colonization and associated health risks
PlasticsFatE has just published a summary of work performed by Jaffer Yousuf Dar, a Doctoral Student from the Aquatic Microbial Ecology...
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CUSP and EDIAQI - an IDEAL Collaboration!
The CUSP cluster and the EDIAQI project, both sponsored by the European Commission, have joined forces to standardize microplastic...
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The WHO Europe Ministerial Conference on Environment and Health
Highlighting the benefits of research into microplastics and health for policy action Countries across Europe made a commitment to take...
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PlasticsFatE partners find the presence of proteins encourages the dispersion of microplastics
Researchers showed that microplastics from our waste are dispersed in water by proteins adsorbed to their surface. This discovery opens...
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CUSP at the WHO’s 7th Ministerial Conference on Environment and Health
The CUSP Cluster will participate in a parallel session on the contribution of pan-European research collaboration to evidence-based...
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PlasticsFatE and CUSP at nanoSAFE and NanoSafety Cluster Conference June 2023
The 8th International Conference on Health and Safety Issues for a socially responsible approach to nanomaterials was held this year in...
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PlasticsFatE - Boosting the Careers of our Young Researchers
In this article, Giulia Antonello (UNITO) describes how she has found that PlasticsFatE is not only about research: it’s also 'a...
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CUSP - hot off the press: the Cluster's latest news
Issue number four of the periodic CUSP newsletter is now available for download; includes updates about the latest events, initiatives,...
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Human Risk Assessment of MNPs - CUSP Workshop #3
CUSP - The European research cluster to understand the health impacts of MNPs - invites you to take part in the final workshop in our...
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CUSP announces workshop series on Human Risk Assessment of MNPs
Three online thematic workshops will be taking place this Spring; the first will be on Tuesday, February 7th, focusing on regulatory...
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Free Seminar - Automated particle recognition software for Raman microscopes
Do you want to know about a new automated particle recognition software package for Raman microscopes and its application to...
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Microplastics in human tissue samples: International study warns against premature conclusions
The distribution of microplastics and nanoplastics in the environment, the potential of human exposure and particle uptake, and the...
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From Science to Policy - CUSP's First Policy Brief is Published
How micro- and nanoplastics (MNPs) might be affecting human health is still unknown, and so policymakers and regulatory authorities...
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PlasticsFatE Newsletter #2 - Out Now!
PlasticsFatE's second newsletter is out now and downloadable here. Find out how the team has been especially busy with selecting and...
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Environment & Health - New EU factsheet and catalogue
PlasticsFatE and CUSP are both featured in two documents recently issued to provide essential information on recently completed and...
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PlasticsFatE at VAMAS Event: Measurement needs for microplastics
Two PlasticsFatE partners - Korinna Altmann (BAM) and Ulrike Braun (UBA) have recently supported and participated in the Versailles...
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GAIKER Researcher Introduces New Approach Methods to Human Tox Students
PlasticsFatE partner Alberto Katsumiti (GAIKER) recently delivered a highly informative training session at the Research in Environmental...
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PlasticsFatE Holds a 'Wee' General Assembly in Edinburgh
More than 45 PlasticsFatE partners travelled from across Europe to convene in Edinburgh for its 2022 General Assembly from 27th - 28th...
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Team PlasticsFatE Meet at Last
PlasticsFatE partners defied the challenges of airport chaos, staff shortages, baggage disappearances, delays and cancellations to...
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Plastic Particles in Human Blood Detected and Quantified
A ground-breaking study published in Science Direct describes how a method for detecting and quantifying plastic particles in human...
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Introduction to and Training on Risk Assessment for Micro and Nanoplastics
29th March 2022 - 10:00 - 15:00 CET Register here This interactive workshop provides an introduction to risk assessment for micro and...
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Read all about it! PlasticsFatE Publishes Project Newsletter No.1
PlasticsFatE Partners are happy to announce the publication of the project's first Newsletter, which is packed full of news emerging from...
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PET Microplastics - evidence of degradation during human digestion.
Microplastics are ubiquitous in the natural environment, water, air and, ultimately, in what we eat. In fact, the latest estimates...
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CUSP - University of British Columbia
Workshop on "Analytics: Characterization and quantification/enumeration of particles in the environment and in tissue" looks at common...
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We eat and inhale thousands of bits of plastic every year. Now what?
EC Horizon Magazine introduces the CUSP Cluster The European Commission’s research and innovation magazine, Horizon, has published an...
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PlasticsFatE First General Assembly
Despite meticulous plans and preparations for our first in-person meeting, the pandemic forced PlasticsFatE to move its first General...
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PlasticsFatE Debuts at ImagineNano
This year's ImagineNano event saw PlasticsFatE partner GAIKER showcase the project to an audience of 310 visitors from 24 countries....
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CUSP Website Live Now
The CUSP website is live and kicking! What is CUSP? PlasticsFatE together with AURORA , IMPTOX, PLASTICHEAL , and POLYRISK, is one of ...
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