What nonsense is this! If it was so bad, many of us would be dead now!
Alert: Plastophobia is a serious disorder. Please seek immediate medical help! (Caution: satire)
What these studies (including this one) usually fail/omit to investigate whether these absorbed/ingested microplastics are not again discarded by the human body!
It appears the study has not yet been published!
"Key takeaways
- Microplastics, super-tiny plastic fragments, are found in many of the products we use in everyday life.
- A pilot study by UCLA engineers found that microplastics are also present in chewing gum.
- The research suggests that regular gum chewers could potentially be ingesting tens of thousands of microplastic particles a year, although the health effect is not known.
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The pair tested 10 brands of commercially available chewing gum, including five synthetic gums, which rely on petroleum-based polymers for their chewiness, and five natural gums, which use plant-based polymers like chicle or other tree sap.
In the lab, a subject chewed seven pieces of each brand for four minutes, ... collecting saliva samples every 30 seconds. In a second experiment, they collected samples repeatedly over 20 minutes to measure the rate at which microplastics were released from each piece of gum. ...
“Our goal is not to alarm anybody,” said ... principal investigator of the study. “Scientists don’t know if microplastics are unsafe to us or not. There are no human trials. But we know we are exposed to plastics in everyday life, and that’s what we wanted to examine here.” ..."
Chewing gum can shed microplastics into saliva, pilot study finds (news release by the ACS)
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