‘A relatively new discovered … hazard’
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