| CAPI | Computer-Assisted Personal Interviewing |
| EFSA | European Food Safety Authority |
| FAO | Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations |
| FCM | Food Contact Materials |
| FOMIC-Py | Food Microplastic Pyramid |
| FTIR | Fourier-Transform Infrared Spectroscopy |
| HDPE | High-Density Polyethylene |
| ISTAT | Italian National Institute of Statistics |
| LDA | Linear Discriminant Analysis |
| LDIR | Laser Direct Infrared Spectroscopy |
| LOD | Lower Limit of Detection |
| MDI | Mean Decrease in Gini |
| MM | Modeled Measure |
| MPs | Microplastics |
| Mt | Million Tonnes |
| Nad | Non-Alcoholic Drinks |
| NPs | Nanoplastics |
| OOB | Out-of-Bag |
| PA | Polyamide |
| PE | Polyethylene |
| PET | Polyethylene Terephthalate |
| PLS-DA | Partial Least Squares Discriminant Analysis |
| PP | Polypropylene |
| PS | Polystyrene |
| PVC | Polyvinyl Chloride |
| Py-GC/MS | Pyrolosis-Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry |
| Rc | Canonical Correlation |
| RF | Random Forest |
| SINU | Italian Society of Human Nutrition |
| VIM | Variable Importance Measures |
| VIP | Variable Importance in Projection |
| μFTIR | Micro-FTIR Spectroscopy |
| μRaman | Micro-Raman Spectroscopy |