Table 1 Results of the GC-MS analysis for the three layers of the disposable medical mask, with total numbers of peaks detected, combined mass fraction of extracted compounds detected and a list of compounds with ≥90% quality and at levels of > 10 μg/g microplastics. The possible functions of chemicals were extracted from Zimmermann et al. [37] and Groh et al. [38] through the database “Chemicals associated with plastic packaging”. For the chemicals which were not listed in any of these two publications, the function was summarised from the PubChem database. Where available, detection in other plastic samples was described (after Zimmermann et al. [37])
