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tldr, not much because we can't measure it to begin with
by tantalor 4mo ago
tldr, not much because we can't measure it to begin with
- Agrue8u 4mo agodid read, >e360: Do we really eat a credit card’s worth of plastic each week? >Rauert: That has absolutely been debunked and >...we found is that lipids and fats will give you a false positive for polyethylene. Lipids are made up of the same building blocks as polyethylene, so when we analyze them, they look identical in our analysis instrument. >I know it is easy to say we don’t have enough information yet, but we do know about [the health risks from] these chemicals that are in all the plastics that your food is wrapped in.
- culi 4mo agoNot just because we can't measure it but because its hard to say what's due to the plastic and what's due to additives in the plastics > And while we know a lot about the impact of chemicals added to plastic — such as phthalates, which have been shown to impact fertility, or bisphenols, which have been linked to Type 2 diabetes — we know very little about what effect the plastic particles themselves might be having.