Call for urgent research on ingestion of microplastics

Small global study detects nine different types of plastic in human stool
Reuters Health
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Tiny pieces of plastic may get into the body via the air people breathe and the food they eat, a study suggests.

Researchers who examined stool samples from eight people from diverse geographical locations found that all the samples contained microplastics, according to a report in Annals of Internal Medicine.