Microplastics found in the placentas of human fetuses

Re:Microplastics found in the placentas of human fetuses by amelius on Tuesday December 22, 2020 @07:40AM (#25505673)

Shouldn't we have found microplastics in large land animals (e.g. meat) long before, and shouldn't that have raised the necessary questions?

Or is this microplastics from cosmetics?

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Re:Microplastics found in the placentas of human fetuses by londons_explore on Tuesday December 22, 2020 @07:59AM (#25505789)

The method to find microplastics has only been commonly known for the last ~2 years.

Before that these plastics went unnoticed.

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Re:Microplastics found in the placentas of human fetuses by EinwegPlastik on Tuesday December 22, 2020 @09:09AM (#25506386)

We do.

We raised the necessary questions.

This is not the first news, this is just an additional water droplet on the full barrel.

There were articles about microplastic in the rain, on mountains, dessert and on fields; Water supply and in waste water.

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Re:Microplastics found in the placentas of human fetuses by perfunctory on Tuesday December 22, 2020 @08:02AM (#25505810)

> All the particles analysed were plastics that had been dyed blue, red, orange or pink and may have originally come from packaging, paints or cosmetics and personal care products.

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Re:Microplastics found in the placentas of human fetuses by taneq on Tuesday December 22, 2020 @08:10AM (#25505863)

Lots of things had plastic micro-beads until recently, I believe (laundry detergents, exfoliating soaps/shampoos). It’s more that we’ve just started thinking of this as a bad thing and started looking for it, and now we’re finding it.

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