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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Researcher Dusan Materic said that without proper quality-control measures, it is impossible to know whether detected plastics originate from the tissue itself.
How to assess microplastics in our bodies? Scientists have a plan
Taiwan· 2026-01-30
Dusan Materic, a researcher specialized in microplastics, discusses the challenges of determining the source of detected plastics.
Quantos microplásticos há no corpo? Pesquisadores tentam pôr fim ao debate
Brazil· 2026-01-28Dusan Materic questioned the science of microplastics in the human body in a lengthy article published in The Guardian.
Os microplásticos já estão no corpo humano. Ou será que não? | Microplásticos
Portugal· 2026-01-27
Dr Dušan Materić criticized the brain microplastic study, calling it a joke due to methodological challenges.
‘A bombshell’: doubt cast on discovery of microplastics throughout human body | Plastics
United Kingdom· 2026-01-13
Dusan Materic researches at Utrecht University and the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research UFZ in Leipzig.
Gefahr Plastikmüll: Uno-Verhandlungen in Genf
Switzerland· 2025-08-02
Dušan Materić is a chemist from UFZ and the lead author of the study on nanoplastics in the Atlantic.
Los nanoplásticos del Atlántico revelan que la contaminación es mucho mayor de lo estimado
Panama· 2025-07-12