A lot of videos on social media suggest that heating food in a plastic container in the microwave can make you sick or even cause deaths. But is this ...

This year’s edition of ACID (Amsterdam Chemistry Innovation Day) brought together 400 attendees from industry, government, and academia. The event included ...

What happens when plastic particles enter our bodies? And what makes studying microplastics so complex? Belgian newspaper De Morgen explored these and ...

A successful week for MOMENTUM at SOT 2025, this year’s annual meeting of the Society of Toxicology! Various MOMENTUM researchers presented their results ...

Microplastics are everywhere, especially indoors. We breathe them in, they enter our lungs and from there they can spread to other organs. Barbro Melgert ...

MOMENTUM researchers Marja Lamoree from Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and Gert-Jan Gruter from Universiteit van Amsterdam have been nominated for the ...

Juliette Legler, coordinator of MOMENTUM and toxicologist at Universiteit Utrecht, talked about her research and engaged with the audience in a lecture by ...

Scientists have found large quantities of microplastics in human brains. They examined samples from deceased individuals and found that microplastics and ...

We are responsible for 400 billion kilograms of plastic waste every year, 9.5 billion of which ends up in nature. 175 countries are therefore working on ...

It was great to welcome our MOMENTUM partners for the consortium meeting in Utrecht over the past two days. All work packages and breakthrough projects ...

Participants from more than 40 different organisations, representing universities, research institutes, industry, ministries, and interests groups, came ...

In MOMENTUM, we aim to unravel the human health effects of micro- and nanoplastics and find solutions. MOMENTUM partners have developed a roadmap featuring ...

MOMENTUM researcher Irene Gosselink from Universiteit Maastricht was recently invited to present her work at the Microplastic and Human Health Symposium in ...

MOMENTUM partners at Leiden University explored this question by monitoring the uptake and transfer of tiny plastic particles from water through lettuce to ...

MOMENTUM researchers Emma Kasteel and Annemijne van den Berg were recently invited at BetaBreak, the science discussion platform of the University of ...

How dangerous are microplastics? And why would they affect your health? Dutch news programme EenVandaag asked these and other questions to MOMENTUM ...

MOMENTUM researcher Nienke Vrisekoop from UMC Utrecht performed at the recent Betweter Festival in Utrecht! Nienke talked about microplastics and what we ...

MOMENTUM researchers Laurens Mandemaker and Annemijne van den Berg were present at the MICRO 2024 conference on plastic pollution in Lanzarote. Laurens ...

We’re excited to share some MOMENTUM highlights from EUROTOX Congress 2024, the annual congress of European societies of toxicology, held in Copenhagen ...

MOMENTUM’s Nienke Vrisekoop discussed this question on Dutch radio channel NPO Radio 1 last night. She was the main guest in the radio show “De ...

Following the recent publication of her group, MOMENTUM researcher Marja Lamoree was interviewed by Dutch radio show “Met het Oog op Morgen”. In their ...

Our consortium meeting was a great success! We’ve had two days full of inspiring talks, useful discussions, and two poster sessions putting the spotlight ...

A new study by MOMENTUM partners at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and the Amsterdam University Medical Center confirms the presence of micro- and ...

Who is Irene Gosselink? “I’m a PhD candidate at Maastricht University and TNO, almost entering my final year. My background is quite diverse. I studied ...

Prof. Dr. Dick Vethaak, our dear colleague, friend and co-coordinator of MOMENTUM, passed away on June 1, 2024. An international expert in the field of ...

MOMENTUM researcher Nelly Saenen talks about her microplastics research in an educational video by Universiteit van Vlaanderen. In the video, she explains ...

Researchers from the University of New Mexico have found microplastics in human and canine testicles for the first time. The results were published in the ...

The global production of plastic is expected to double, or even triple, between now and 2050. This will inevitably result in more plastic pollution and ...

Driven by the desire for a clean living environment, Dick Vethaak has had a profound impact with his research. He is one of the frontrunners of research ...

In February, we celebrated the kick-off of the seven new breakthrough projects funded by ZonMw. A good opportunity to get to know the project leader of one ...

Martin Brits is leaving the MOMENTUM consortium. For the past three years, he has worked as a research associate at the VU Amsterdam in the group of Marja ...

Since 2018, researchers have been working hard to identify and minimise the health effects of micro- and nanoplastics. Initial projects have shown that ...

A recent study found that the presence of micro- and nanoplastics in human arteries was associated with an increased risk of heart attack, stroke, or ...

It is with a deeply saddened heart that we received the news that our dear colleague dr. ir. Ingeborg Kooter passed away on Tuesday, March 26, 2024. ...

In which ways can microbes on the surface of plastics affect human health? And which pieces of the puzzle need to be solved in order to include the ...

The Washington Post published an article this week discussing the current progress and challenges in microplastics research. Back in 2015, it was ...

A new documentary exploring the growing threat of microplastics for human health premiers at the SXSW Film Festival this month. The film titled “Plastic ...

The presence of micro- and nanoplastics in human arteries has been linked to cardiovascular diseases. A new study followed 257 patients with narrowed blood ...

Bottled water has been found to contain hundreds of thousands of tiny particles of plastic that have not previously been counted, raising questions over ...

Disposable bottles of water contain about 240,000 plastic particles per liter, according to a recent American study published in the American journal PNAS. ...