How much should we worry about the health effects of microplastics?

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How much should we worry about the health effects of microplastics?

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There are small pieces of plastic in the food we eat and air we breathe

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It seems that every few months we discover microplastics in a new part of the body. We have found them in our liver, kidneys, lungs and gut. They have even shown up in human ******* milk and blood. Last week, they turned up again in eight people’s

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, a brain structure crucial for smell.

These plastic fragments are so small – less than five millimetres in size – that they can make their way into our bodies through food, water and even…

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