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2 HEALTH AND LABORATORY MAGAZINE

No: 06 February 2022
ISSN: 2148-953X

CHAIRMAN
Süleyman GÜLER PLASTIC
EDITOR
Berat DURMAZ SNOWFALL

GRAPHIC DESIGNER
Berat DURMAZ IN THE ALPS
ADVISORY BOARD
Professor Dr. Kadir HALKMAN
Professor Dr. Aziz EKŞİ
Melek MALKOÇ
Exp. Yelda ZENCİR
Özlem Etiz SAĞDAŞ
Nevin KOÇAKER

LEGAL ADVISORS
Hunting. Ersan BARKIN A new study is investigating how Teamwork: Scientists ascending to the
Hunting. Murat TEZCAN
much plastic is trickling down on us research station in the Hohe Tauern National
FINANCIAL CONSULTANT from the atmosphere. Park. Credit: ZAMG/Niedermoser
İrfan BOZYİĞİT
SMMM
HEAD OFFICE According to the study, EXTREME CONDITIONS a colleague handled an and mechanical abrasion
Oğuzlar Mah. 1374 Sok. No:2/4 some nanoplastics travel open sample. from macro- to micro- and
Balgat - Ankara TURKEY over 2000 kilometers The scientists studied a nanoparticles. But discard-
Tel: +90 312 342 22 45 through the air. According small area at an altitude The origin of the tiny ed plastic is far from the
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bilgi@labmedya.com to the figures from the of 3106 meters at the top particles was traced with only source. Everyday use
measurements about 43 of the mountain “Hoher the help of European wind of plastic products such
trillion miniature plastic Sonnenblick” in the “Hohe and weather data. The as packaging and clothing
particles land in Switzer- Tauern” National Park in researchers could show releases nanoplastics. Par-
land every year. Research- Austria. An observatory that the greatest emis- ticles in this size range are
ers still disagree on the of the Central Institute sion of nanoplastics into so light that their move-
exact number. But accord- for Meteorology and the atmosphere occurs in ment in the air can best be
ing to estimates from the Geodynamics has been densely populated, urban compared to gases.
www.prosigma.net study, it could be as much located here since 1886. areas. About 30% of the
info@prosigma.net as 3,000 tonnes of nano- The observatory is run by nanoplastic particles Besides plastics, there
plastics that cover Switzer- meteorologist and Arctic measured on the mountain are all kinds of other tiny
land every year, from the researcher Elke Ludewig. top originate from a radius particles. From Sahara
remote Alps to the urban Since research began here of 200 kilometers, main- sand to brake pads, the
DATE OF ISSUE lowlands. These estimates in the late 19th century, the ly from cities. However, world is buzzing through
February 2022 - Ankara
are very high compared to observatory has only been plastics from the world’s the air as abrasion. It is as
NOTE TO THE READER other studies, and more re- non-operational on four oceans apparently also get yet unclear whether this
Published in the Labmedya search is needed to verify days. The research station into the air via the spray of kind of air pollution poses
Newspaper featured these numbers also served as a base for the waves. Around 10% of a potential health threat
in articles and articles the study on the spread the particles measured in to humans. Nanoparti-
Responsibility of opinions
Broadcast LabMedya not to The study is uncharted of nanoplastics in remote the study were blown onto cles, unlike microparticles,
its body and / or Prosigma scientific territory because areas. the mountain by wind and do not just end up in the
Company, belongs to the the spread of nanoplastics weather over 2000 kilom- stomach. They are sucked
authors. Authors may have through the air is still large- Every day and in all weath- eters – some of them from deep into the lungs through
consultancy or other business
relationships with companies ly unexplored. The result of er conditions, scientists the Atlantic. respiration, where their size
involved in their work. Ads Brunner’s research is the removed a part of the may allow them to cross
also; is the responsibility of most accurate record of air top layer of snow around NANOPARTICLES IN THE the cell-blood barrier and
advertisers. The product pollution by nanoplastics a marker at 8 AM and BLOODSTREAM enter the human blood-
information published on the
product introduction pages ever made. To count the carefully stored it. Contam- stream. Whether this is
are the presentations of the plastic particles, Brunner ination of the samples by It is estimated that more harmful or even dangerous,
relevant companies and the and his colleagues have nanoplastics in the air or than 8300 million tonnes of however, remains to be
manufacturer Responsibility.
developed a chemical on the scientists’ clothes plastic have been pro- researched.
In addition to the Labmedya method that determines was a particular challenge. duced worldwide to date,
the contamination of the In the laboratory, the re- about 60% of which is now
samples with a mass spec- searchers sometimes had waste. This waste erodes
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