It doesn’t take much for microplastics to leach into food, researchers warn
Scientists are finding microplastics everywhere from brain tissue to arteries and warning of the health risks posed by their ...
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How Many Microplastics Are You Eating? 10 Foods With More Than You Think
How many microplastics are too many? "There is no officially established 'safe' or 'unsafe' level of microplastic intake. It ...
Chewing Gum Releases Microplastics Into Your Mouth, Scientists Warn
The researchers' analysis revealed that the lion's share of the microplastics were released from the gum in the first two ...
Chewing gum releases microplastics into the mouth but it’s unclear how dangerous that is – yet
The researchers, from the University of California, Los Angeles, calculated that one piece of gum could shed hundreds or a ...
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Your chewing gum may be full of microplastics
Chewing gum could release hundreds to thousands of microplastic particles into your saliva, a new UCLA study finds.
Every time you chew gum, you’re filling your mouth with plastic
Gum is made of plastic, and chewing both synthetic and natural gums could release microplastics into your mouth, according to ...
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Chewing gum can shed microplastics into saliva, pilot study finds
Plastic is everywhere. And many products we use in everyday life can expose people to tiny, micrometer-wide plastic particles ...
A chewing gum habit could expose you to tens of thousands of microplastics
Chewing gum as a potential source of microplastics has yet to be widely studied. They’re made from a rubbery base, sweetener, ...
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Your Gum Is Shedding Microplastics into Your Saliva
The rate at which chewing gum releases microplastics in saliva is quite astonishing. The test suggests that within eight minutes of chewing a gum stick, 94% of microplastic particles are released into ...
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Chew with caution: Scientists find microplastics in gum
The research team then measured the number of microplastics present in each saliva sample. Plastic particles were either ...