Tamara Susan Galloway OBE is a British marine scientist and Professor of Ecotoxicology at the University of Exeter.
[4] Here she worked with the University of Exeter Medical School on Bisphenol A, which is a compound that is found in food and drink packaging.
[4] She used the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES), which was the first to collect information on urinary BPA concentrations.
[13] She has primarily looked at the impact of micro- and nano-plastics, finding that they can stop animals from feeding on their natural prey.
Galloway demonstrated that this likely impacts the rest of the food chain, estimating that shellfish consumed by humans contained around 50 particles of plastic.
[14] Her research was used in the Government of the United Kingdom report A Green Future: Our 25 Year Plan to Improve the Environment.