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Nitrile and latex gloves may cause overestimation of microplastics

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Re: Nitrile and latex gloves may cause overestimation of microplastics

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Post by haunter »

isodev wrote: post #4

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Who?

> The authors acknowledge funding from the College of Literature, Science, and Arts at the University of Michigan. R. L. P. was supported by an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship (NSF-GRFP) DGE-2241144. M. E. C. was partially supported by the University of Michigan Rackham Graduate School through a merit and predoctoral fellowship.

Re: Nitrile and latex gloves may cause overestimation of microplastics

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Post by Tenemo »

isodev wrote: post #4

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> The authors acknowledge funding from the College of Literature, Science, and Arts at the University of Michigan. R. L. P. was supported by an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship (NSF-GRFP) DGE-2241144. M. E. C. was partially supported by the University of Michigan Rackham Graduate School through a merit and predoctoral fellowship. The authors would like to acknowledge the professors and students of the Mapping, Measuring, and Modeling Microplastics in the Atmosphere of Michigan team for their support and helpful discussions. The authors thank Jennifer Connor, Curtis Refior, Amy Pashak, Megan Phillips, Josh Hubbard, Bill Joyce, and David Lee for their community partnership. The authors would also like to thank former Dean Anne Curzan from the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts at the University of Michigan for funding this work through the “Meet the Moment” grant program. The authors acknowledge technical support from the Michigan Center for Materials Characterization.

Is there anything wrong here? Not sure I understood your comment

Re: Nitrile and latex gloves may cause overestimation of microplastics

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Post by preuceian »

lpcvoid wrote: post #6
isodev wrote: post #4

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Where do I find this info?

In the acknowledgements section. However, after reviewing it, I’m not sure what or who I should be looking for, so I’m not entirely sure what the OP is hinting at.

At first glance, nothing appears suspicious, though I should note that I’m not familiar with any of the authors and haven’t looked into them further.

Re: Nitrile and latex gloves may cause overestimation of microplastics

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Post by pell »

giantg2 wrote: post #2

Classic. This is like that female serial killer in Europe that turned out to actually just be DNA from a woman making the DNA collection swabs.

Interestingly, contamination of the forensic equipment was considered early on already. However, due to the geographic area of the findings and initial negative control tests using fresh swabs, they ruled it out.

Re: Nitrile and latex gloves may cause overestimation of microplastics

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Post by stef25 »

darkerside wrote: post #5

So the problem is these particles are literally flying off the gloves of the scientists wearing them to the point it's interfering with the experiment and so... it's less of a problem?

Well, it could mean more microplastics occur in an unnatural environment (the lab) containing much more plastics than in a typical home setting.

If you're around plastic a lot you're ingesting a lot and if you're not, you're not.

So the conclusion would be that plastics "sheds" and you should avoid it in packaging, kitchen utensils, etc

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Post by harladsinsteden »

globemaster99 wrote: post #14

Carl Sagan was right all along. Always question science, never trust these so called experts, do your own assessment, research and thinking. This must be another global climate change scam.

> Do your own assessment.

Yeah, and my primitive home-grown analysis then carries the same weight as those from experts with professional equipment? Oh come on...

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Post by gww »

throwup238 wrote: post #9

Called it! > To be honest, after reading some of these microplastics papers I'm starting to suspect most of them are bullshit. Plastics are everywhere in a modern lab and rarely do these papers have proper controls, which I suspect would show that there is a baseline level of microplastic contamination in labs that is unavoidable. Petri dishes, pipettes, microplates, EVERYTHING is plastic, packaged in plastic, and cl…

I haven't really read the studies but shouldn't they have negative controls to negate these effects? Wouldn't that let the author's correct for a baseline contamination level in the lab?

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Post by ivell »

globemaster99 wrote: post #14

Carl Sagan was right all along. Always question science, never trust these so called experts, do your own assessment, research and thinking. This must be another global climate change scam.

It is partially correct. Except make sure you have the necessary skills to question the science. Intuition in these things are quite misleading. Don't start questioning cancer reports just because you don't feel sick.If you really don't trust it, get a relevant medical degree or take second opinions from those who are really qualified and not some quacks. Otherwise you would just end up dead.
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