Microplastics a stage of entry for Microbes

                                        What we see and observe around in this world is merely nothing. There is so much that we could not observe with our naked eyes. Example: Can we observe our fingernails growing? Flowers blooming?  or do you have any idea exactly about what's happening in a drop of water?. If you view a drop of water under a microscope, you can see a whole group of microbes, it appears to be another world. This is not just an amazing factor.

                               With new research in microplastics, Oyster's favorite seafood of humans is identified as consuming microplastics infested with biofilms. So what is a Biofilm?. Have you ever seen a green slime near taps, or at the nooks and corners of spectacles near the nose region? The greeny layer. Biofilms are a colony of bacteria and other microbes adhering on the surfaces of any solids.

                                     The Scientist of this research says plastics as a trojan horse. Speaking of how worst the microplastics are, having plastic in our metabolism is not for any good. These scientists say that Oysters feed on microplastics infested with biofilm, a colony of microbes, as they mistake them for their food. This inevitably enters our food chain. The biofilm colony is a mixture of various microbes including many disease-causing microbes. 

                                     The article identified microplastics coated with  E.coli biofilm of higher quantity. Microplastics are already at the highest risk for humans and other organisms, but these articles point that indirect accumulation of microplastics is also associated with other harmful microbe accumulation. Oysters are just a study specimen, the research says that all seafood we consume directly or indirectly has biofilm-infested microplastics stacked inside. 

                                    Are you proud of being vegan? don't you think that these microplastics on soil cant enter the root system of plants. 

Reference:

Fabra, M., Williams, L., Watts, J. E., Hale, M. S., Couceiro, F., & Preston, J. (2021). The plastic Trojan horse: Biofilms increase microplastic uptake in marine filter feeders impacting microbial transfer and organism health. Science of The Total Environment, 149217.

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