Health risk due to micro- and nanoplastics in food

ScienceDaily
Mar 24, 2022, 5:02 pm258 ptsTrending
Five grams of plastic particles on average enter the human gastrointestinal tract per person per week. This is roughly equivalent to the weight of a credit card. Whether ingested micro- and nanoplastics pose a health risk is being investigated in numerous studies but is largely unknown to date. A research team…

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