Investigating Exposure and Hazards of Micro- and Nanoplastics During Pregnancy and Early Life (AURORA Project): Protocol for an Interdisciplinary Study

Amanda M Durkin   ^{1, 2} , MSc ;   Runyu Zou   ^{1, 2} , PhD ;   Justin M Boucher   ³ , MSc ;   Matthew SP Boyles   ^{4, 5} , PhD ;   Jeske van Boxel   ⁶ , MSc ;   Mariona Bustamante   ^{7, 8, 9} , PhD ;   Emily A Christopher   ⁴ , MPH ;   Payam Dadvand   ^{7, 8, 9} , MD, PhD ;   Hanna M Dusza   ¹⁰ , PhD ;   Majorie van Duursen   ⁶ , Prof Dr ;   Markus M Forsberg   ¹¹ , Prof Dr ;   Karen S Galea   ⁴ , PhD ;   Juliette Legler   ¹⁰ , Prof Dr ;   Laurens DB Mandemaker   ^{10, 12} , Dr ;   Florian Meirer   ¹² , Dr ;   Jane Muncke   ³ , PhD ;   Tim S Nawrot   ^{13, 14} , Prof Dr ;   Petra Přibylová   ¹⁵ , PhD ;   Anna R Robuck   ¹⁶ , PhD ;   Nelly D Saenen   ¹³ , PhD ;   Barbara M Scholz-Böttcher   ¹⁷ , PhD ;   Kuanliang Shao   ¹⁸ , PhD ;   Martine Vrijheid   ^{7, 8, 9} , Prof Dr ;   Douglas I Walker   ¹⁸ , PhD ;   Lisa Zimmermann   ³ , PhD ;   Laura M Zoutendijk   ¹² , MSc ;   Virissa Lenters   ^{1, 6} , PhD ;   Roel Vermeulen   ^{1, 2} , Prof Dr

¹ Department of Global Public Health and Bioethics, Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands

² Division of Environmental Epidemiology, Institute for Risk Assessment Sciences, Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands

³ Food Packaging Forum Foundation, Zurich, Switzerland

⁴ Institute of Occupational Medicine (IOM), Edinburgh, United Kingdom

⁵ Centre for Biomedicine and Global Health, School of Applied Sciences, Edinburgh Napier University, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

⁶ Amsterdam Institute for Life and Environment, section Environmental Health and Toxicology, Faculty of Science, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, Netherlands

⁷ ISGlobal, Barcelona, Spain

⁸ Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain

⁹ Spanish Consortium for Research on Epidemiology and Public Health, Madrid, Spain

¹⁰ Division of Toxicology, Institute for Risk Assessment Sciences, Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands

¹¹ School of Pharmacy, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, Finland

¹² Inorganic Chemistry and Catalysis Group, Institute for Sustainable and Circular Chemistry and Debye Institute for Nanomaterials Science, Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands

¹³ Centre for Environmental Sciences, Hasselt University, Diepenbeek, Belgium

¹⁴ Department of Public Health and Primary Care, Leuven University, Leuven, Belgium

¹⁵ RECETOX, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic

¹⁶ Department of Environmental Medicine and Public Health, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, United States

¹⁷ Institute for Chemistry and Biology of the Marine Environment, Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg, Oldenburg, Germany

¹⁸ Gangarosa Department of Environmental Health, Emory University Rollins School of Public Health, Atlanta, GA, United States