HALIFAX — The co-author of a new study assessing microplastics in lobsters says the research can serve as a warning that plastic pollution is landing on people’s dinner plates.

The study, published in the scientific journal Regional Studies in Marine Science, confirmed the presence of microplastics in the tails of lobsters caught off the coast of Nova Scotia.

Co-author Amber LeBlanc, a researcher at Dalhousie University in Halifax, said she and her colleagues found a variety of microplastics in edible meat pulled from all of the lobsters they studied.

In an interview Wednesday, she said the findings are raising questions about the future of the lucrative industry and the long-term impact on human health.

“It’s not just that the plastic pollution crisis is outside and … removed from us,

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