Front. Mar. Sci. Frontiers in Marine Science Front. Mar. Sci. 2296-7745 Frontiers Media S.A. 10.3389/fmars.2026.1809837 Retraction Retraction: Ingestion and polymeric risk assessment of microplastic contamination in commercially important brachyuran crab Portunus sanguinolentus Frontiers Editorial Office * Writing – original draft Writing – review & editing Correspondence: Frontiers Editorial Office, research.integrity@frontiersin.org 23 02 2026 2026 13 1809837 12 02 2026 12 02 2026 Copyright © 2026 Frontiers Editorial Office. 2026 Frontiers Editorial Office https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. A Retraction of the Original Research article Ingestion and polymeric risk assessment of microplastic contamination in commercially important brachyuran crab Portunus sanguinolentus By Rabari V, Patel H, Ali D, Yadav VK, Patel A, Sahoo DK and Trivedi J (2023) Front. Mar. Sci. 10:1286782. doi: 10.3389/fmars.2023.1286782 section-at-acceptance Marine Pollution

Following publication, concerns were raised regarding the integrity of the images in the published figures. Figure 4A and Figure 4E were also published in three other articles:

Rabari V, Rakib MRJ, Trivedi J, Idris AM and Malafaia G (2023) RETRACTED: Microplastics occurrence in commercial crab (Portunus segnis) from the western coast of India and pollution indices: First investigation and evidence. Sci. Total Environ. 905:167500. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.167500.

Prusty K, Rabari V, Patel K, Ali D, Alarifi S, Yadav VK, Sahoo DK, Patel A and Trivedi J (2023) An assessment of microplastic contamination in a commercially important marine fish, Harpadon nehereus (Hamilton, 1822). Fishes 8(9):432. doi: 10.3390/fishes8090432.

Rabari V, Patel H, Patel K, Ashish P, Bagtharia S and Trivedi J (2023) Quantitative assessment of microplastic contamination in muddy shores of Gulf of Khambhat, India. Mar. Pollut. Bull. 192:115131. doi: 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2023.115131.

The authors failed to provide a satisfactory explanation during the investigation, which was conducted in accordance with Frontiers’ policies. As a result, the data and conclusions of the article have been deemed unreliable and the article has been retracted.

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