Americans May Be Ingesting Thousands of Microplastics Every Year

Re:Americans May Be Ingesting Thousands of Microplastics Eve... by hammock on Friday June 07, 2019 @09:05PM (#20129935)

BPA is not used to make plastics more flexible. It is commonly used in all sorts of places though.

Phthalates are commonly used to make plastics more flexible. They are also estrogenic.

Parabens, PCBs, and pesticides are all other common entrants into the body with estrogenic effects.

( Reduced sperm count and sperm quality)

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Re:Americans May Be Ingesting Thousands of Microplastics Eve... by chrisco255 on Friday June 07, 2019 @11:11PM (#20130395)

Do you have sources?

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Re:Americans May Be Ingesting Thousands of Microplastics Eve... by ddebernardy on Saturday June 08, 2019 @08:09AM (#20131948)

You'll find some good links here:

The entire series is a good read, too:

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Re:Americans May Be Ingesting Thousands of Microplastics Eve... by chrisco255 on Sunday June 09, 2019 @07:09AM (#20138463)

The Guardian is an online news site (with all the sensationalism that entails), not a serious scientific publication.

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Re:Americans May Be Ingesting Thousands of Microplastics Eve... by ddebernardy on Sunday June 09, 2019 @11:30PM (#20143712)

The first article I linked to has links to the scientific sources.

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