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Woodruff, who has studied the effect of some chemicals found in plastics on human health, reproduction, and development for two decades, first started looking into microplastics in 2021.
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.
Microplastics that have been found in human organs have “alarming links” to adverse health impacts, including lesions, cervical cancer, and other diseases, researchers suggest. Now, an ...
Microplastics have been found in the ocean and the air, in our food and water. Dr. ... which can be as wide as a pencil eraser or as small as a fraction of the width of a human hair. Nanoplastics ...
Microplastics have been found in the human body in recent studies. Scientists are trying to understand their potential negative effects on our health. An expert in environmental pollution shared ...
Inhalation of microplastics (MPs) have been shown to be one of the major contributors to MP uptake in humans. MPs in the form of dust particles are circulated constantly through ventilation and air conditioning systems indoors. [122] The large dosage of these compounds are hazardous to humans, destroying the endocrine system.
[213] [215] According to a 2019 comprehensive review of scientific evidence published by the European Union's Scientific Advice Mechanism, little was known with respect to the human health risks of nano- and microplastics, and what was known was surrounded by considerable uncertainty. The main limitations were the quality or methodology of the ...
For all the damage that microplastics are doing to the planet, it may be that only an impending threat to the human body will direct the kind of attention to the issue that it has long deserved.