People who meet their recommended water intake through tap water ingest an additional 4,000 plastic particles annually, while those who drink only bottled water ingest an additional 90,000 ...

That study followed one published in February in Nature Medicine that was led by University of New Mexico toxicologist Matthew Campen and found a shocking number of tiny plastic particles in the ...

The researchers say it also will work for detection of waterborne plastic particles. HoLDI-MS stands for hollow-laser desorption/ionization mass spectrometry. A team of McGill University ...

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It’s about protection—one mindful habit at a time. (Pic courtesy: iStock) Microplastics—the tiny plastic particles less than 5 millimetres wide—have silently found a way into daily meals ...

Two standard-sized water bottles had 240,000 plastic particles in them on average, the researchers found using "a powerful optical imaging technique for rapid analysis of nanoplastics." ...

releasing tiny plastic particles into food," said Brad Younggren of Circulate Health. When you microwave food in plastic, the heat accelerates how much microplastics leach into the food.

EAST MOLINE, Ill. — Every day, plastic shipping pallets roll down the assembly line at Green Current Solutions at its East Moline facility. Tammy Becker started the operation in 2019 with her ...

Peller said the small amount of oil remaining in the bottle drew out the tiny plastic particles. "Oil is part of baby formula," Peller said, explaining that when formula is made in a plastic ...

But for this study, a new method called Raman scattering microscopy, developed by study co-authors Wei Min and chemistry graduate student Naixin Qian, hit plastic particles with laser beams ...