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Experts previously told Fortune that refraining from microwaving, cooking, or even storing and freezing food in plastic is a simple step that you can take to reduce your exposure to microplastics ...
Professor Fay Couceiro leads a team that researches the potential health impacts of microplastics. Not microwaving food in plastic is just one way she reduces her exposure.
Microplastics are everywhere—from the ocean to our bloodstream—raising urgent questions about their impact on human health. Here are 5 tips to reduce your exposure.
Humans are exposed to toxic chemicals and microplastics at all stages in the plastics life cycle. Microplastics effects on human health are of growing concern and an area of research. The tiny particles known as microplastics (MPs), have been found in various environmental and biological matrices, including air, water, food, and human tissues.
Microplastic remediation refers to environmental remediation techniques focused on the removal, treatment and containment of microplastics (small plastic particles) from environmental media such as soil, water, or sediment. [1] Microplastics can be removed using physical, chemical, or biological techniques. [2]
As of 2010, the degree of absorption and retention from microplastics exposure from air, water, and food that humans ate as the end of the food chain was unclear. [ 214 ] [ 215 ] [ 216 ] Up to 2018 it was unknown whether and to what degree microplastics bioaccumulated in humans.
The Program on Reproductive Health and the Environment at UCSF offers additional tips to help minimize exposure to toxic chemicals, like those sometimes found in microplastics.
These microplastics may take longer to degrade than initially anticipated depending on environmental conditions. [ 6 ] Concerns have also been raised about the potential effects of microplastics on ecosystems, as well as the risk of bioaccumulation in food chains, which could impact both human health and the environment.