(Reuters Health) - Tiny bits of plastic may be getting into our bodies via the air we breathe and the food we eat, a new study suggests. ...
- Tiny bits of plastic may be getting into our bodies via the air we breathe and the food we eat, a new study suggests.
The study volunteers came from around the globe: Japan, Russia, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Italy, Poland, Finland and Austria. Their food diaries showed that all had possible plastic exposure via food wrappers and bottles. None of the volunteers were vegetarians. Six of the eight had consumed ocean-going fish.The stool samples were tested at the Environment Agency Austria for 10 types of plastic with a newly developed analytical procedure.
It's not known where the microplastics came from or how they were ingested. But because there were different types of plastic, the researchers suspect there were multiple sources, ranging from food processing and packaging to shellfish and sea salt."Discussion is ongoing about the potential health effects of ingested microplastics and nanoplastics, which may translocate into gastrointestinal tissues or other organs and cause deleterious effects," they noted.
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