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return2ozma@lemmy.world to Health - Resources and discussion for everything health-related@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 day ago

People Who Drink Bottled Water on a Daily Basis Ingest 90,000 More Microplastic Particles Each Year

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People Who Drink Bottled Water on a Daily Basis Ingest 90,000 More Microplastic Particles Each Year

www.wired.com

return2ozma@lemmy.world to Health - Resources and discussion for everything health-related@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 day ago
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Drinking water in plastic bottles contains countless particles too small to see. New research finds that people who drink water from them on a daily basis ingest far more microplastics than those who don’t.
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    Paywall. But also genuinely curious, is 90,000 micro plastics in a year a lot? Are there levels where we start to be more concerned? How does this compare to other sources of ingestion?

    I need to look back into this, back when I first did there weren’t a lot of links to actual poor health outcomes, but I feel like I’ve seen some articles since which suggested that was the case.

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    “Key findings include the annual ingestion of 39,000–52,000 microplastic particles by individuals, with bottled water consumers ingesting up to 90,000 more particles than tap water consumers.”

    https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0304389425018643?via=ihub

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      all these articles dont really tell the technical detail of what they are writing, 90k particles of what? molecules, weight?

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    90000 of what? Kilograms?

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      Particles!!!

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        Can you convert that to kilograms?

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          Micro plastics are measured in micro kilograms

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