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Like Violet Beaureguard, the avid gum chewer in "Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory," Curt Mueller hopes to find out just how much shelf life a piece of gum really has. A piece of Bazooka bubble ...

You may have another culprit to consider: It’s gum, according to a new pilot study that found chewing just one piece can release hundreds to thousands of microplastics into saliva. The study is ...

Not to burst your bubble, but your gum might be packed with plastic. A new study found that chewing a single piece releases hundreds — if not thousands — of microplastics into your saliva ...

with each piece of gum producing about 100 pieces Getty Chewing gum can shed microplastics — and natural and synthetic gums contain “similar amounts of microplastics.” Each stick of gum ...

According to a pilot study presented during the American Chemical Society’s spring meeting, a single piece of chewing gum is liable to release hundreds of polymer particles into our mouths.

(CNN) - If you like chewing gum, you may be surprised to learn that you are bringing in potentially hundreds of microplastics into your mouth. Researchers at the University of California in Los ...