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Roast dinner and all the microplastic trimmings

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(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 […]

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Microplastics in food

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(BBC.co.uk 6/26/20) Microplastics: Is there plastic in our fruit and veg? Environmental campaigners have called for urgent action after a study found microplastics in fruit and vegetables. Researchers at a university in Italy discovered tiny plastic particles in things like lettuce, broccoli, potatoes, and pears. The study, published in the Environmental Research journal, discovered that Apples and

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