Researchers at the University of Michigan report that residue from nitrile and latex gloves can transfer polymer fragments into lab workflows that may be misidentified as microplastics, potentially ...
A scientific study reveals that gloves used in laboratories may be contaminating and skewing data on microplastics.
Researchers may have been unknowingly inflating microplastics pollution estimates, and the source may have been the gloves protecting their hands during their work, according to a University of ...