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From the other thread: > "Previous studies found the major chemical composition to be PET, which is expected since the bottle is made of PET," Yan told us. "Th
by ImHereToVote 3y ago
From the other thread:
> "Previous studies found the major chemical composition to be PET, which is expected since the bottle is made of PET," Yan told us. "Therefore, for a long time, we had the impression that the majority of plastic particles inside bottled water would be Polyethylene terephthalate (PET) particles of a few hundred nanometers in size."
> "That was incorrect," Yan said.
> Ironically enough, the most commonly detected plastic was polyamide, a material commonly used in water filtration systems and "the most popular membrane material used in reverse osmosis … a common water purification method shared by all three brands [of water tested]," the team wrote in the paper.
Too different from the title. And the other comments seem to have been written without reading the text.