Now another <a href="https://www.acs.org/content/acs/en/pressroom/newsreleases/2020/august/micro-and-nanoplastics-detectable-in-human-tissues.html">new study </a>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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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 crack down on plastic pollution.

Microplastic particles are now detectable in human organs🤔

Humans <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/oct/22/microplastics-found-in-human-stools-for-the-first-time">do ingest microplastics </a>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 over the world. Very little is known about whether they go elsewhere in the body after ingestion or what health effects they have.

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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 <a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40572-018-0206-z">particular focus on seafood </a>that human's consume. Microplastics have been associated with <a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048969719346169">neurotoxic effects in wild fish </a>and increase oxidative damage which can theoretically lead to a greater risk of cancer.

📌Specific definition of microplastics 

Human tissue samples from a large repository which was set up to study neurodegenerative conditions such as Alzheimer’s disease and developed a new method to test the samples for plastics. They artificially spiked the samples with microplastics to test their new method and were able to detect the plastics.

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The scientists tested 47 tissue samples from 4 different organs, finding a chemical used to make some plastics in every one. 

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