Funded by the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions programme, the MS4Plastics project will develop innovative pre-treatment and pre-concentration protocols to detect and characterise low µm-range microplastics and nanoplastics (1 nm – 20 µm) in edible fish and shellfish samples (e.g., mussels, are the national dish of Belgium). To achieve its goal, the project team will employ a multidisciplinary approach that combines analytical chemistry, instrumental methods and nanometrology. Smart hyphenation strategies, combined with size-based fractionation techniques, will also be used.

1 September 2022 – 22 March 2025