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Humans are exposed to toxic chemicals and microplastics at all stages in the plastics life cycle. Microplastics effects on human health are of growing concern and an area of research. The tiny particles known as microplastics (MPs), have been found in various environmental and biological matrices, including air, water, food, and human tissues.
Woodruff, who has studied the effect of some chemicals found in plastics on human health, reproduction, and development for two decades, first started looking into microplastics in 2021.
Microplastics have been found in the human body in recent studies. Scientists are trying to understand their potential negative effects on our health. An expert in environmental pollution shared ...
Finding higher levels of microplastics in human tissues today “makes sense” because plastic manufacture, plastic pollution and human exposure to plastics have all been increasing rapidly, said ...
As of 2022 and 2023, the quantities of microplastic entering the human body from the environment were still not well understood, [222] as was the potential risks of microplastic to human health; the field is difficult to research because of the potentially long time between exposure to the contaminant and any associated health effect becoming ...
Microplastics are everywhere—from the ocean to our bloodstream—raising urgent questions about their impact on human health. Here are 5 tips to reduce your exposure.
These issues can be found in Indonesia, which is the second largest contributor of plastic waste, where human stools were collected from fishermen finding that 50% had concentrations of microplastics. Each human stool that had microplastics had a concentration between 3.33 and 13.99 μg of microplastic per gram of feces. [135]
People with microplastics and nanoplastics in plaque lining a major blood vessel in their neck may have a higher risk of heart attack, stroke or death, new research suggests. Doctors found tiny ...