• A Children’s Health Perspective on Nano- and Microplastics 

      Sripada, Kam; Wierzbicka, Aneta; Abass, Khaled; Grimalt, Joan O.; Erbe, Andreas; Röllin, Halina B.; Weihe, Pál; Díaz, Gabriela Jiménez; Singh, Randolph Reyes; Visnes, Torkild; Rautio, Arja; Odland, Jon Øyvind; Wagner, Martin (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      Background: Pregnancy, infancy, and childhood are sensitive windows for environmental exposures. Yet the health effects of exposure to nano- and microplastics (NMPs) remain largely uninvestigated or unknown. Although ...
    • Microplastics; occurrence, levels and implications for environment and human health related to food. Scientific opinion of the Scientific Steering Committee of the Norwegian Scientific Committee for Food and Environment 

      Skåre, Janneche Utne; Alexander, Jan; Haave, Marte; Jakubowicz, Ignacy; Knutsen, Helle Katrine; Lusher, Amy; Ogonowski, Martin; Rakkestad, Kirsten Eline; Skaar, Ida; Sverdrup, Line Emilie; Wagner, Martin; Agdestein, Angelika; Bodin, Johanna Eva; Elvevoll, Edel O.; Hemre, Gro Ingunn; Hessen, Dag Olav; Hofshagen, Merete; Husøy, Trine; Krogdahl, Åshild; Nilsen, Asbjørn Magne; Rafoss, Trond; Skjerdal, Olaug Taran; Steffensen, Inger-Lise; Strand, Tor A; Vandvik, Vigdis; Wasteson, Yngvild (VKM Report;, Research report, 2019)
      The steering committee of VKM has self-initiated a mandate for an opinion on microplastics based on recently published international and/or national reports complemented with literature from December 2016 to February 2019. ...
    • Nanoplastics affect the inflammatory cytokine release by primary human monocytes and dendritic cells 

      Weber, Annkatrin; Schwiebs, Anja; Solhaug, Helene; Stenvik, Jørgen; Nilsen, Asbjørn Magne; Wagner, Martin; Relja, Borna; Radeke, Heinfried H. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      So far, the human health impacts of nano- and microplastics are poorly understood. Thus, we investigated whether nanoplastics exposure induces inflammatory processes in primary human monocytes and monocyte-derived dendritic ...