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Interesting... How do they enter the blood in the first place?

graphe 3y ago
Plastic is commonly found in canned food and drink. The foods are boiled inside plastic lined containers to ensure safety. Feed is sometimes ground up human waste aka moldy bread with plastic that's been ground up that the animals eat. Here are more ways you can ingest them. https://www.earthday.org/you-are-what-you-eat-plastics-in-our-food/ https://www.earthday.org/you-are-what-you-eat-plastics-in-ou... Apples and carrots were not expected to be the most contaminated.
- agilob 3y ago
  Also in the air from plastic clothes, carpets, furniture, wear off from car tires, smoking cigarettes...
- bequanna 3y ago
  > feed is sometimes ground up human waste aka moldy bread with plastic that's been ground up that the animals eat. This is 100% true. Feeding animals (mostly swine) garbage is usually perfectly legal and not really regulated. They claim to strip off packaging using automated processing but they are doing this on an industrial scale and no one is really watching them.
cperciva 3y ago
You probably get some plastic entering your bloodstream every time you get a flu shot, just from the disposable syringe. (Yes, it's IM not IV, but it will migrate.)
ju-st 3y ago
See chapter 3.3 of "Discovery and quantification of plastic particle pollution in human blood" https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160412022001258 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S016041202...
dghughes 3y ago
Some bits of plastic are very small far smaller I think than even that of a virus particle. Since nano-plastics are not alive I'd say there's nothing to stop it from entering through bowels if it's eaten.
throwaway44773 3y ago
There’s already a well known correlation between heart disease and gum disease. One of the hypothesis is that plaque creating bacteria from the mouth end up in the bloodstream and create plaque in the heart. It wouldn’t be a big stretch to suggest that microplastics could take the same route to reach the heart.

Plastic is commonly found in canned food and drink. The foods are boiled inside plastic lined containers to ensure safety. Feed is sometimes ground up human waste aka moldy bread with plastic that's been ground up that the animals eat. Here are more ways you can ingest them. https://www.earthday.org/you-are-what-you-eat-plastics-in-our-food/ https://www.earthday.org/you-are-what-you-eat-plastics-in-ou... Apples and carrots were not expected to be the most contaminated.

agilob 3y ago
Also in the air from plastic clothes, carpets, furniture, wear off from car tires, smoking cigarettes...
bequanna 3y ago
> feed is sometimes ground up human waste aka moldy bread with plastic that's been ground up that the animals eat. This is 100% true. Feeding animals (mostly swine) garbage is usually perfectly legal and not really regulated. They claim to strip off packaging using automated processing but they are doing this on an industrial scale and no one is really watching them.

cperciva 3y ago

You probably get some plastic entering your bloodstream every time you get a flu shot, just from the disposable syringe. (Yes, it's IM not IV, but it will migrate.)

ju-st 3y ago

See chapter 3.3 of "Discovery and quantification of plastic particle pollution in human blood" https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160412022001258 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S016041202...

dghughes 3y ago

Some bits of plastic are very small far smaller I think than even that of a virus particle. Since nano-plastics are not alive I'd say there's nothing to stop it from entering through bowels if it's eaten.

throwaway44773 3y ago

There’s already a well known correlation between heart disease and gum disease. One of the hypothesis is that plaque creating bacteria from the mouth end up in the bloodstream and create plaque in the heart. It wouldn’t be a big stretch to suggest that microplastics could take the same route to reach the heart.