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Your Food Packaging Is Shedding Microplastics Into Every Meal, Study Reveals
Simply using your food packaging in the manner it's supposed to be used is enough to contaminate your comestibles with a ...
Scientists Are Finding Microplastics Almost Everywhere In The Body. How Bad Is That, Really?
Microplastics have been found nearly everywhere in the human body. Experts explain how harmful they may be for our health, ...
Plastic in your privates: New microplastics discovery sparking fertility concerns
New research out Tuesday in the journal Human Reproduction reveals that microplastics are coming for our baby-makers, too. In ...
Microplastics May Be Making E. Coli Infections Even More Dangerous, Scientists Say
Microplastics aren’t just everywhere — they might be turning your dinner into a breeding ground for supercharged pathogens.
Verywell Health on MSN11h
Study Finds Glass Bottles May Contain More Microplastics Than Plastic Bottles
Microplastics, plastic fragments 5 millimeters or smaller, have been found in just about every part of the human body. To ...
Microplastics shed by food packaging are contaminating our food and drink, study finds
Microscopic bits of plastic are sloughing off into food and beverages when consumers unwrap the plastic packaging, a new ...
ZME Science on MSN1d
Glass bottles shed up to 50 times more microplastics into drinks than plastic or cans — and the paint on the cap may be to blame
A team of researchers from ANSES, France’s food safety agency, has found that drinks sold in glass bottles actually contain ...
The surprising ways food packaging is exposing us to microplastics
At this point, most people know that microplastics are everywhere. Scientists have shown that tiny particles, amounting to ...