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Re:What is our hidden consumption of microplastics doing to ... by kbelder on Thursday May 19, 2022 @11:34AM (#31436063)
I'm sure we eat that much silica powder.. what makes a granule of plastic worse? I'm not discounting the potential problem of microplastics, but I'm not seeing a clear description of what it actually does to a person. Embed and raise cancer risk?
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Re:What is our hidden consumption of microplastics doing to ... by filoeleven on Thursday May 19, 2022 @03:07PM (#31438756)
Silica powder is basically inert. Plastics don’t have that same guarantee. Some of them are endocrine disrupters, like BPA.
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Re:What is our hidden consumption of microplastics doing to ... by rgrieselhuber on Thursday May 19, 2022 @12:20PM (#31436635)
For me it’s about baseline assumptions. When I’m eating food, I should assume that I’m not eating anything my great-grandmother would not recognize as food.
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Re:What is our hidden consumption of microplastics doing to ... by rgrieselhuber on Thursday May 19, 2022 @03:08PM (#31438762)
Amazing that this is objectionable.
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