plastic bottles

‘A relatively new discovered … hazard’

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A new study strongly suggests that microplastics, found in plastic bottles and other everyday items, are linked to pancreatic damage. What’s happening? The research, published in the BMC Genomics journal, showed that small particles of polyethylene terephthalate plastic, or PET, had damaging effects on pigs’ pancreatic cells. Researchers from Poland and Spain used pigs because … Read more

‘Associated with increased risk of death’

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Microplastics are showing up in almost everything as plastic pollution continues to be an issue. The tiny toxic particles are in our drinking water, food, clothes, and even human tissue. And according to peer-reviewed research published in Science Advances, even ordinary contact between plastic and water can shed these particles even without sunlight or physical … Read more