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> Note that people ingest plastics all the time, e.g. through the breakdown of toothbrush bristles Plastics are found in human blood/lungs/breast milk/placenta
by throwaway290 3y ago
> Note that people ingest plastics all the time, e.g. through the breakdown of toothbrush bristles
Plastics are found in human blood/lungs/breast milk/placenta etc, so the concern is much stronger than just accidental ingestion from a toothbrush.
Read about effects of xenoestrogens, which a bunch of these plastics apparentlt are, and cross check with some realities of today.
- pcrh 3y ago>xenoestrogens Yes, I appreciate the risk of plasticisers, and these should be addressed. However, by the time an item made of plastic has become a "microplastic", these plasticisers have been leached out.
- throwaway290 3y agoBPA is not a plasticizer.