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- Avoiding aerial microfibre contamination is crucial for accurate detection of microplastics in environmental samples, which is a common issue in labs.
- Our study evaluated the level of microfibre contamination under different air quality conditions, finding that using a clean bench significantly reduced contamination by 96.5%.
- The findings suggest that without proper clean-air devices, microplastic pollution levels may have been overestimated, highlighting the need for such devices in future research to improve data accuracy.
Article Abstract
Avoiding aerial microfibre contamination of environmental samples is essential for reliable analyses when it comes to the detection of ubiquitous microplastics. Almost all laboratories have contamination problems which are largely unavoidable without investments in clean-air devices. Therefore, our study supplies an approach to assess background microfibre contamination of samples in the laboratory under particle-free air conditions. We tested aerial contamination of samples indoor, in a mobile laboratory, within a laboratory fume hood and on a clean bench with particles filtration during the examining process of a fish. The used clean bench reduced aerial microfibre contamination in our laboratory by 96.5%. This highlights the value of suitable clean-air devices for valid microplastic pollution data. Our results indicate, that pollution levels by microfibres have been overestimated and actual pollution levels may be many times lower. Accordingly, such clean-air devices are recommended for microplastic laboratory applications in future research work to significantly lower error rates.
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