I think this is a conversion error. According to the ABC story about this the brain has 4800 micrograms of microplastics. That's alarming, but that is 4.8mg, wh

I think this is a conversion error. According to the ABC story about this the brain has 4800 micrograms of microplastics. That's alarming, but that is 4.8mg, which is .0048 grams. A plastic spoon is over 4g. They mixed up micro and milli and were off 1000x. ABC news: https://abcnews.go.com/Health/brain-tissue-higher-amounts-microplastics-organs-study/story?id=118431630 https://abcnews.go.com/Health/brain-tissue-higher-amounts-mi... Original study: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-024-03453-1 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-024-03453-1