Assessment of microplastic contamination in some marine species collected in Ba Ria – Vung Tau province

Recently, there has been increasing interest in studying microplastic pollution because of its dangerous effects on human health through the food chain. This paper presents first results obtained density some marine species (including oysters, green mussels, mullet and tonguefish) cultured Ba Ria – Vung Tau Province. The indicated that microplastics were present 100% analyzed samples with different concentrations order: oysters (10.3 ± 1.5 microplastics/individual) > blue mussels (7.4 0.7 fish (4.1 1.3 tonguefish (1.2 0.9 microplastics/individual). There are four main types plastic found digestive organs including Polypropylene, Polyethylene Terephthalate, polyethylene, polystyrene.