India, March 21 -- Impact of microplastics The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) - National Institute for Research in Environmental Health has conducted a systematic review of studies on the presence of microplastics in the human body, Kirti Vardhan Singh, Minister of State in the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, told the Rajya Sabha.

According to the findings, there is currently a lack of dose-response and toxicity exposure studies on microplastics. Separately, a committee comprising the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB), ICMR, the Central Institute of Petrochemicals Engineering & Technology and the National Centre for Sustainable Coastal Management, coordinated by the CPCB, submitted a report to the Nati...