(DailyMail.co.uk) Health fears as experts find roast dinner can contain up to 230,000 particles.
It’s a meal families traditionally enjoy tucking into at Sunday lunchtime.
But experts have now found that a roast dinner can contain a staggering 230,000 microplastic particles.
Researchers said eating a similar meal every day would result in swallowing the equivalent of two plastic bags a year. The study was carried out by University of Portsmouth scientists and ITV’s Good Morning Britain.
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.
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By Colin Fernandez 27 November 2022