Roger Gilbert, Publisher of International Aquafeed magazine talks to Dr Guillaume Drillet, Regional Manager for SGS, at this year’s World Aquaculture Society held in Darwin, Australia in the last week of May 2023.
Following his presentation at the ‘Microplastics in Food’ session, he talks about what inspired the presentation and where we are at today regarding this important issue. The issue of plastic waste management and microplastics is ubiquitous across all industries, including the global food, feed, and aquaculture industries. Dr Drillet tells us they are researching and developing laboratory methods to measure and quantify microplastics found in places such as fish farms. He says we should be monitoring the quantity of microplastics, so that if health concerns were to arise in the future as a result of microplastics, “we are capable of acting quickly and with the necessary background data and information.”
SGS continue to test and monitor for clients, supporting the standardisation of methods for measuring microplastics, and is working to define the extent of the problem the aquaculture and other industries are facing.
