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Is there any high quality research into the health effects? I keep hearing about how microplastics spread, but not whether that's demonstrably bad. I found th

Is there any high quality research into the health effects? I keep hearing about how microplastics spread, but not whether that's demonstrably bad. I found this (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10151227/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10151227/) , but it's a wildly broad overview, and includes claims both dubious and entirely believable, buried in tons of uninteresting stuff about how plastic can spread and how common it is.

brnt 2y ago
I hear you, but with things we stand a chance of ingesting I really like to flip the onus. I think we can do better than we did with asbestos.
stevebmark 2y ago
No RCTs that I’m aware of. Microplastics may contribute to heart disease. https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2309822 https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2309822