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Published in final edited form as: Chem Eng J. 2021 Oct 1;421(1):10.1016/j.cej.2021.129816. doi: 10.1016/j.cej.2021.129816

Table 2.

Summary FT-IR results for the analysis of MPs.

Location Sample used Abundance of MPs Ref.
Yellow River, China Surface water 1760 ± 710 to 10,120 ± 4090 MPsm−3 [85]
Mediterranean sea Seawater; Fish Seawater: 0.23 ± 0.20MPs m−3
Sardine: 0.20 ± 0.69 MPs per individual
Anchovy: 0.11 ± 0.31 per individual		 [86]
Bizerte lagoon Mollusc From 703.95 ± 109.80 to 1482.82 ± 19.20 MPs kg−1 wet weight. [87]
River Ticino, Italy Eurasian otter 2 MPs were identified out of 24 suspect particles. [88]
Pacific sea Sea turtle 828 MPs ingested from 50 sea turtles. [89]
Mondego estuary (Portugal) Fish 1.67 ± 0.27 MPs per fish. [90]
Western Lake Superior Surface water Mean: 1200 mg km−2; Range: 91–3538 mg km−2 (mass per unit area). [91]
Germany Drinking water Mean: 0.7 MPs m−3; Range: 0–7 MPs m−3. [92]
Yellow sea, China Sediments; Benthic organisms Sediment: 560–4205 MPs kg−1 dry weight;Benthic organisms:
1.7–47 MPs kg−1 wet weight.		 [93]
Hong Kong Benthic sediments Mean: 189 +_50 MPs kg−1; Range: 169–221 MPs kg−1. [94]
Germany Farmland 0.34 ± 0.36 MPs kg−1 dry weight. [95]
Indian coast Sediment From 45 ± 12 to 220 ± 50 MPs kg−1 dry weight. [96]
Norway Sediment 12,000–200,000 MPs kg−1 dry weight. [97]