Dušan Materić
Dušan Materić is a chemist at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ) in Leipzig, Germany, and the lead author of a recent study revealing significant concentrations of nanoplastics in the North Atlantic Ocean, highlighting the underestimation of plastic pollution in marine environments.
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Taiwan:
Researcher Dusan Materic said that without proper quality-control measures, it is impossible to know whether detected plastics originate from the tissue itself.
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Brazil:
Dusan Materic, a researcher specialized in microplastics, discusses the challenges of determining the source of detected plastics.
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Portugal:
Dusan Materic questioned the science of microplastics in the human body in a lengthy article published in The Guardian.
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United Kingdom:
Dr Dušan Materić criticized the brain microplastic study, calling it a joke due to methodological challenges.
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Switzerland:
Dusan Materic researches at Utrecht University and the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research UFZ in Leipzig.
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Panama:
Dušan Materić is a chemist from UFZ and the lead author of the study on nanoplastics in the Atlantic.
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