Microplastic contamination in salted and sun dried fish and implications for food security - A study on the effect of location, style and constituents of dried fish on microplastics load.

The presence of microplastics in 21 different species of marine dried fish products from four locations in India is reported in this study. All samples have microplastics, and majority of the MPs were found to be fragments (56 %) and are of <100 μm size (47 %). Eviscerated fish found to have significantly higher MPs than whole fish.