An Ex Vivo Study Examining Migration of Microplastics from an Infused Neonatal Parenteral Nutrition Circuit

Figure 1.Overview of microplastic concentration (A), polymer composition (B), and size distribution (C) in the crystalloid solution collected in a simulated parenteral nutrition circuit and administered over a course of maximum 72 h with samples at time 0 (T0), T12, T24, T48, T72.The T0 measurements represent information on microplastics in the original fluid, without transition through the circuits.The number of samples per time point is indicated in panel A with "N=."Two particles (size 976 and 1,274:9 lm) are not included in the figure of the size distribution (Figure 1C).Plastic polymer types (Figure 1B), are polyacrylamide (PAM), polyester (PES), polypropylene (PP), polyethylene (PE), polyethylene terephthalate (PET), and polystyrene (PS).Corresponding numeric data of the figure can be found in Supplementary data at https://zenodo.org/records/10102884("Supporting data -Numeric data.docx").