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Development and application of a health-based framework for informing regulatory action in relation to exposure of microplastic particles in California drinking water

A workshop-based framework appraised mammalian hazard evidence to inform California drinking-water monitoring.

Updated 2026-10-22

A workshop-based framework appraised mammalian hazard evidence to inform California drinking-water monitoring.

Source details

Scott Coffin and colleagues. Microplastics and Nanoplastics. 2022.

DOI: 10.1186/s43591-022-00030-6

Findings

The authors could not extrapolate a human-health-based threshold from the reviewed evidence. They distinguished a monitoring screening approach from a demonstrated safe exposure level.

Methods and scope

PDF pp. 1–2 abstract; tiered critical review of mammalian hazard studies and monitoring framework.

What this source can support

Methodological and policy context, not an occurrence survey.

A conservative screening level used to inform monitoring is not an established human-health threshold. No framework-derived number is presented as an observed product concentration.

Human biomonitoring · Regulatory and agency context

Source provenance

Primary PDF SHA-256: a3ddbf43f296a4f6b1af0afa3ec662c7a09f8de7c620c0f42a4160135a15e6d8

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Microplastics Reference Library. Development and application of a health-based framework for informing regulatory action in relation to exposure of microplastic particles in California drinking water. Updated 2026-10-22. https://microplasticsindex.com/sources/s-a3ddbf43f296

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