As Microplastics Flood Our Bodies, Can Testing and Treatment Defend Us?
Clinics say tests can detect particles and treatments can remove up to 99% of microplastics, though experts question the evidence and accuracy.
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Microplastics in children and cancer tissues raise alarm over weak EU protections
Current EU legislation is failing to prevent the spread of microplastics throughout the human body, according to a new report published on Wednesday (22 July) by the Plastic Soup Foundation in collaboration with Green Impact. Drawing on peer-reviewed scientific evidence, the report says microplastics and nanoplastics have been detected in human blood, breast milk, lungs, brain tissue, placentas and children’s urine. It warns that their widesprea…
In recent decades, concerns about plastic pollution have focused mainly on devastating images of beaches covered with debris and marine animals caught in nets. However, the international scientific community has raised alarms about a much more insidious, invisible and direct threat to human beings: microplastics. These plastic particles, which measure less than five millimetres, and even nanoplastics, smaller than one micron, have ceased to be j…
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