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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2024 Oct 10.
Published in final edited form as: Environments. 2024 Aug 24;11(9):185. doi: 10.3390/environments11090185

Table 2.

Suspected microplastic abundance in muscle tissue of fish collected from Sarasota Bay, FL (n=89).

Particle Shape Total Muscle Samples with Particle Shape n (%) Particle Shapes in Muscle Samples with <10 Particles n (%) Particle Shapes in Muscle Samples with 10-50 Particles n (%)
Fiber Bundles 3 (3.37) 3 (3.37) 0
Single Fibers 64 (71.91) 63 (70.79) 1 (1.12)
Films 24 (26.97) 24 (26.97) 0
Foams 5 (5.62) 5 (5.62) 0
Non-TWP Fragments 10 (11.24) 9 (10.11) 1 (1.12)
TWP Fragments* 10 (11.24) 10 (11.24) 0
*

TWP (tire-wear particle)