Bottle-fed babies ingest millions of microplastics daily, study finds | Daily Sabah – Daily Sabah

Bottle-fed babies may ingest more than a million pieces of microplastics each day, new research has shown, highlighting the abundance of plastics in our food products.
There is growing evidence that humans consume huge numbers of the tiny particles, formed when larger pieces of plastic break down, but very little is known about the knock-on health consequences.
Researchers in Ireland looked at the rate of microplastic release in 10 types of baby bottles used to prepare infant formula or accessories…

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