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Now another new study presented yesterday at the American Chemical Society (ACS) Fall 2020 Virtual Meeting has found evidence of chemicals from plastics inside human organs and developed a new method for detecting microplastics in human tissue samples.
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Microplastic particles are now detectable in human organsπ€
Plastic pollution creating microplastics is a growing concern for human health as emerging studies find them everywhere from drinking water to in fish, seafood and birds. Last year, the World Health Organization urgently called for more research into the health impacts of microplastics and a crac...
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Human tissue samples from a large repository which was set up to study neurodegenerative conditions such as Alzheimerβs disease and developed a new method to test the samples for plastics. They artificially spiked the samples with microplastics ...
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Humans do ingest microplastics and they do at least pass through the digestive system as evidenced by the finding that they were widely found in fecal samples from people all o...
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πSpecific definition of microplastics
Scientists define microplastics as plastic fragments less than 5 mm, about 0.2 inches (D). Much previous research on microplastics and nanoplastics have focused on its accumulation and effects in marine life, with
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