'We've choked this planet with plastic, from the highest mountains to the deepest oceans—and we've no idea at all about costs for public health,' said natalieben.
"We've choked this planet with plastic, from the highest mountains to the deepest oceans—and we've no idea at all about costs for public health," said a British lawmaker.
"Our study is the first indication that we have polymer particles in our blood—it's a breakthrough result," Dick Vethaak, an ecotoxicologist at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in the Netherlands and expert on the posed by microplastics, told the British newspaper."But we have to extend the research and increase the sample sizes, the number of polymers assessed, etc.," he said, noting that additional studies are in progress.
"It is certainly reasonable to be concerned," Vethaak continued."The particles are there and are transported throughout the body."reported that as they travel through the body, microplastics"may lodge in organs," though"the impact on health is as yet unknown." Nevertheless,"researchers are concerned as
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