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Svenja Mintenig
Researcher at Utrecht University
Publications - 17
Citations - 4450
Svenja Mintenig is an academic researcher from Utrecht University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Microplastics & Environmental science. The author has an hindex of 11, co-authored 13 publications receiving 2365 citations. Previous affiliations of Svenja Mintenig include Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research.
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Microplastics in freshwaters and drinking water: Critical review and assessment of data quality.
TL;DR: More high quality data is needed on the occurrence of microplastics in drinking water, to better understand potential exposure and to inform human health risk assessments, and there is a significant need to improve quality assurance ofmicroplastic sampling and analysis in water samples.
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Identification of microplastic in effluents of waste water treatment plants using focal plane array-based micro-Fourier-transform infrared imaging.
Svenja Mintenig,Svenja Mintenig,Ivo Int-Veen,Martin G. J. Löder,Martin G. J. Löder,Sebastian Primpke,Gunnar Gerdts +6 more
TL;DR: It is suggested that WWTPs could be a sink but also a source of MP and thus can be considered to play an important role for environmental MP pollution.
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Low numbers of microplastics detected in drinking water from ground water sources
TL;DR: Ground water and drinking water was analysed for the presence of microplastic particles using FTIR imaging and these particles were identified as polyethylene, polyamide, polyester, polyvinylchloride or epoxy resin and between 50 and 150 μm in size.
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Focal plane array detector-based micro-Fourier-transform infrared imaging for the analysis of microplastics in environmental samples
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used a focal plane array detector-based micro-Fourier transform infrared imaging for analysis of microplastics from environmental samples, and they were able to successfully measure the whole surface (>10-mm diameter).
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Quality Criteria for the Analysis of Microplastic in Biota Samples: A Critical Review
TL;DR: The results of this quality assessment show a dire need for stricter quality assurance in microplastic ingestion studies, and a standardized protocol for detecting microplastics in biota samples incorporating these criteria is provided.