POLYRISK - Understanding human exposure and health hazard of micro- and nanoplastic contaminants in our environment

Project Information

POLYRISK

Grant agreement ID: 964766

DOI

10.3030/964766

Project closed

EC signature date 3 February 2021

Start date 1 April 2021

End date 30 September 2025

Funded under

• SOCIETAL CHALLENGES - Health, demographic change and well-being

Total cost

€ 5 991 077,50

EU contribution

€ 5 991 077,50

Coordinated by

UNIVERSITEIT UTRECHT
Netherlands

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Deliverables

Documents, reports (2)

Proposals for project workshops and continuing education courses (CECs)

UU will initiate yearly proposals for workshops and CECs for e.g. scientific conferences.

POLYRISK searchable database integrating MNP data from external sources

Report of the external data sources identified the data integration approach and the functionality available to support WP activities grouping IATA development risk assessment

Other (1)

Detailed outreach, dissemination plans and activities for project

HEAL with input from ERS, UU and VUA will generate detailed outreach and dissemination activity plan and public project website and will present and report them at the Consortium Meetings.

Websites, patent fillings, videos etc. (2)

Cluster web portal and visual identity

Will be prepared by the identified responsible cluster project

Cluster brochure

Will be prepared by the identified responsible cluster project

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (15)

From principles to reality. FAIR implementation in the nanosafety community

Author(s): Dumit, Verónica I.; Ammar, Ammar; Bakker, Martine; Bañares, Miguel A.; Bossa, Cecilia; Costa, Anna; Cowie, Hilary; Drobne, Damjana; Exner, Thomas E.; Farcal, Lucian; Friedrichs, Steffi; Furxhi, Irini; Grafström, Roland; Haase, Andrea; Himly, Martin; Jeliazkova, Nina; Lynch, Iseult; Maier, Dieter; Noorlander, Cornelle W.; Shin, Hyun Kil; Soler-Illia, Galo J.A.A.; Suarez-Merino, Blanca; Willighag
Published in: Nano Today, Issue Volume 51, 2023, ISSN 1878-044X
Publisher: Science Direct
DOI: 10.1016/j.nantod.2023.101923

Exposure protocol for ecotoxicity testing of microplastics and nanoplastics

Author(s): Fazel Abdolahpur Monikh; Anders Baun; Nanna B. Hartmann; Raine Kortet; Jarkko Akkanen; Jae-Seong Lee; Huahong Shi; Elma Lahive; Emilia Uurasjärvi; Nathalie Tufenkji; Korinna Altmann; Yosri Wiesner; Hans-Peter Grossart; Willie Peijnenburg; Jussi V. K. Kukkonen
Published in: Natureprotocols, Issue 18, 2023, Page(s) 3534–3564, ISSN 1750-2799
Publisher: Springer
DOI: 10.1038/s41596-023-00886-9

Spectro‐Microscopic Techniques for Studying Nanoplastics in the Environment and in Organisms

Author(s): Laurens D. B. Mandemaker; Florian Meirer
Published in: Angewandte Chemie - International Edition, Issue 62,2, 2023, ISSN 0721-4227
Publisher: German Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1002/anie.202210494

Interlaboratory Comparison Reveals State of the Art in Microplastic Detection and Quantification Methods

Author(s): Dmitri Ciornii, Vasile-Dan Hodoroaba, Nizar Benismail, Alina Maltseva, Juan F. Ferrer, Jiamin Wang, Raquel Parra, Ronan Jézéquel, Justine Receveur, Dina Gabriel, Andreas Scheitler, Christa van Oversteeg, Jorg Roosma, Alex van Renesse van Duivenbode, Tim Bulters, Michela Zanella, Alessandro Perini, Federico Benetti, Dora Mehn, Georg Dierkes, Michael Soll, Takahisa Ishimura, Marius Bednarz, Guyu P
Published in: Analytical Chemistry, Issue 97, 2025, Page(s) 8719-8728, ISSN 0003-2700
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.4c05403

Environmentally weathered polystyrene particles induce phenotypical and functional maturation of human monocyte-derived dendritic cells

Author(s): Annemijne E T van den Berg 1, Maud Plantinga 2, Dick Vethaak 1 3, Kas J Adriaans 1, Marianne Bol-Schoenmakers 1, Juliette Legler 1, Joost J Smit 1, Raymond H H Pieters 1
Published in: J Immunotoxicol., Issue 19(1):125-133, 2022, ISSN 1547-6901
Publisher: PubMed
DOI: 10.1080/1547691x.2022.2143968

Quantitation of micro and nanoplastics in human blood by pyrolysis-gas chromatography–mass spectrometry

Author(s): Marthinus Brits, Martin J. M. van Velzen, Feride Öykü Sefiloglu, Lorenzo Scibetta, Quinn Groenewoud, Juan J. Garcia-Vallejo, A. Dick Vethaak, Sicco H. Brandsma, Marja H. Lamoree
Published in: Microplastics and Nanoplastics, Issue 4, 2024, ISSN 2662-4966
Publisher: Springer
DOI: 10.1186/s43591-024-00090-w

Collection and Characterization of Synthetic Airborne Particles

Author(s): Grosu, Catalin
Published in: Advanced Materials Letters, Issue Volume 14, Issue 1-1, 2023, ISSN 0976-397X
Publisher: IAAM
DOI: 10.5185/amlett.2023.011714

Top-down generated micro- and nanoplastics reduce macrophage viability without eliciting a pro-inflammatory response

Author(s): Annemijne E. T. van den Berg, Kas J. Adriaans, Luke A. Parker, Elena M. Höppener, Hanna M. Dusza, Juliette Legler, Raymond H.H. Pieters
Published in: Microplastics and Nanoplastics, Issue 5, 2025, ISSN 2662-4966
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1186/s43591-025-00138-5

The Structural Influence of Airborne Particles on their Toxicity

Author(s): Visileanu, Emilia
Published in: Advanced Materials Letter, Issue Volume 14, Issue 2, 2023, Page(s) 2302-1718, ISSN 0976-397X
Publisher: IAAM
DOI: 10.5185/amlett.2023.021718

Comparative Analysis of Airborne Particle Concentrations in Textile Industry Environments Throughout the Workday

Author(s): Emilia Visileanu, Korinna Altmann, Raluca Stepa, Maria Haiducu, Paul Tiberiu Miclea, Alina Vladu, Felicia Dondea, Marian Catalin Grosu, Razvan Scarlat
Published in: Microplastics, Issue 4, 2025, Page(s) 34, ISSN 2673-8929
Publisher: MDPI AG
DOI: 10.3390/microplastics4020034

A quality-by-design inspired approach to develop PET and PP nanoplastic test materials for use in <i>in vitro</i> and <i>in vivo</i> biological assays

Author(s): Lukas Wimmer, My Vanessa Nguyen Hoang, Jacqueline Schwarzinger, Vesna Jovanovic, Boban Anđelković, Tanja Cirkovic Velickovic, Thomas C. Meisel, Tassilo Waniek, Christiane Weimann, Korinna Altmann, Lea Ann Dailey
Published in: Environmental Science: Nano, Issue 12, 2025, Page(s) 2667-2686, ISSN 2051-8153
Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry
DOI: 10.1039/d4en01186d

A template wizard for the cocreation of machine-readable data-reporting to harmonize the evaluation of (nano)materials

Author(s): Nina Jeliazkova, Eleonora Longhin, Naouale El Yamani, Elise Rundén-Pran, Elisa Moschini, Tommaso Serchi, Ivana Vinković Vrček, Michael J. Burgum, Shareen H. Doak, Mihaela Roxana Cimpan, Ivan Rios-Mondragon, Emil Cimpan, Chiara L. Battistelli, Cecilia Bossa, Rositsa Tsekovska, Damjana Drobne, Sara Novak, Neža Repar, Ammar Ammar, Penny Nymark, Veronica Di Battista, Anita Sosnowska, Tomasz Puzyn,
Published in: Nature Protocols, Issue 19, 2024, Page(s) 2642-2684, ISSN 1754-2189
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41596-024-00993-1

Quality-by-design and current good practices for the production of test and reference materials for micro- and nano-plastic research

Author(s): Korinna Altmann, Lukas Wimmer, Victor Alcolea-Rodriguez, Tassilo Waniek, Volker Wachtendorf, Kay Matzdorf, Dmitri Ciornii, Petra Fengler, Frank Milczewski, Itziar Otazo-Aseguinolaza, Manuel Ferrer, Miguel A. Bañares, Raquel Portela, Lea Ann Dailey
Published in: Journal of Hazardous Materials, Issue 497, 2025, Page(s) 139595, ISSN 0304-3894
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhazmat.2025.139595

Response on the commentary by B. Wilhelmus, M. Gahleitner, and M. A. Pemberton, on the manuscript by M. Brits, M.J.M. van Velzen, F.Ö. Sefiloglu, L. Scibetta, Q. Groenewoud, J.J. Garcia-Vallejo, A.D. Vethaak, S.H. Brandsma, M.H. Lamoree. Quantitation of micro and nanoplastics in human blood by pyrolysis-gas chromatography–mass spectrometry: a follow-up study. Microplastics and Nanoplastics (202

Author(s): Marthinus Brits, Martin J. M. van Velzen, Feride Öykü Sefiloglu, Lorenzo Scibetta, Quinn Groenewoud, Juan J. Garcia-Vallejo, Sicco H. Brandsma, Marja H. Lamoree
Published in: Microplastics and Nanoplastics, Issue 4, 2024, ISSN 2662-4966
Publisher: Springer
DOI: 10.1186/s43591-024-00104-7

Towards a risk assessment framework for micro- and nanoplastic particles for human health

Author(s): Amelie Vogel, Jutta Tentschert, Raymond Pieters, Francesca Bennet, Hubert Dirven, Annemijne van den Berg, Esther Lenssen, Maartje Rietdijk, Dirk Broßell, Andrea Haase
Published in: Particle and Fibre Toxicology, Issue 21, 2024, ISSN 1743-8977
Publisher: BioMed Central
DOI: 10.1186/s12989-024-00602-9

Other (3)

Regulatory Relevance of the European Research Cluster to Understand the Health Impacts of Micro- and Nanoplastics (CUSP)

Author(s): Foss Hansen, Steffen
Published in: CUSP Roadmap, Issue 3, 2025
Publisher: CUSP

Regulatory Relevance of the European Research Cluster to Understand the Health Impacts of Micro- and Nanoplastics (CUSP)

Author(s): Foss Hansen, Steffen
Published in: Issue 1, 2022
Publisher: CUSP
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7101443

PlasticsFatE Deliverable Report D7.6 Cluster Brochure

Author(s): Tobin, Lesley; Kienzl, Sabine; Mata, Virginia; Vivani, Laura; Muncke, Jane; Boucher, Justin
Published in: Issue N/A, 2023
Publisher: CUSP
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.8092258

Conference proceedings (1)

Methods for the Collection and Characterization of Airborne Particles in the Textile Industry

Author(s): Visileanu, Emilia
Published in: Human Systems Engineering and Design, Issue Volume 112, 2023, Page(s) 212-223
Publisher: Springer
DOI: 10.54941/ahfe1004132