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#1 2022-11-28 07:26:37
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microplastics
This article feels legit:
Roast dinner and all the microplastic trimmings: Health fears as experts find roast dinner can contain up to 230,000 particles
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech … icles.html
Microplastics are defined as smaller than 5mm long. To see how many find their way into food, GMB reporter Michelle Morrison and her children made two roast dinners with chicken, potatoes, carrots, broccoli and Yorkshire puddings.
However, one meal was made with ingredients bought wrapped in plastic but the second had been mostly purchased without any plastic packaging. The roast made from ingredients wrapped in plastic contained seven times more microplastics than the other one.
Experts said this showed that packaging is a major route for plastics getting into our bodies. The non-plastic packaged items also cost 37 per cent less.
Dr Fay Couceiro, an environmental pollution expert at the university, said: ‘It would appear that the majority of microplastics in our food come from the plastic packaging it is wrapped in.
‘However, there are other ways that plastic can enter the food chain. It could be getting into the vegetables through the soil or into our meat through grazing.
‘Air has lots of microplastics in it too so they could be falling on top of the food. And finally it could be from the cooking utensils used when preparing a meal.’ She added: ‘Usually food samples are analysed for microplastics in their raw state under laboratory conditions.
‘This study differs because we chose to look at what was actually on your plate after the food had been cooked.
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