By Kim Bellard
Vaccine experts They are becoming rogues In response to RFK JR attacks on vaccine safety. Health insurance promise – Honest … this time – to make previous authorizations less heavy (although, of course, to eliminate them). Chatgpt and others LLMS It can be doing Worse in learning. So many things to write about, but I want to return to a now familiar issue: microplastics.
Yo First wrote About microplastics in 2020, and subsequent findings made me rewrite their dangers at least once a year since then. Now there are, once again, new findings and, no, the news is not yet good.
TO New studyof Food Packaging Forum researchers, Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology (EAWAG) and the University of Science and Technology of Norway, and published in NPJ Science of Food Revised 103 previous studies on impact food packaging and “food contact articles (FCA)” can have in micro and nanoplastic (MNP) in our food. They discovered that equally normal use, such as opening a plastic bottle, pushing a plastic tea bag or cutting a plastic cutting table, can contaminate food.
“This is the first system of systematic evidence to investigate the role of the normal and planned use of food contact articles in food with MNP.” explain Dr. Lisa Zimmermann, principal and official scientific communication author in the Food Packaging Forum. “Food contact articles are a relevant MNP source in food; however, its contribution to MNP’s human exhibition is underestimated.”
Their data collected are freely accessible through the FCMINO board., which allows users to filter the data included by the type of FCA, the main food contact material, the analyzed medium and if MNP were detected and, if so, for their size and type of polymer.
Eliminate plastic from the items you buy in the edible store can contaminate it with microplastics, just like packing a tea bag. Simply open bottles or milk bottles, and repeated opening and closure of glass or plastic sheds charge “incalculable amounts” or micro and nanoplastic in the drink, according to Dr. Ir. Zimmerman, who More noticed: “Research shows the amount of microplastics with each bottle opening, so we can say that it is the use of food contact article that leads to micro and nanoplastic release,”
Dr. Zimmerman said The Washington Post: “Plastic is present everywhere. We need to know what we can do.” Examples of what she suggests that we can try to make plastic malfunction foods avoid whenever possible and avoid plastic containers to heat. She admitted, he thought: “We have not really had all the factors that can lead to the release of micro and nanoplastic.”
One of her co -authors, Dr. Jane Muncke, managing director and scientific director of Fool Packaging Forum, warnS than ultraprocessed foods involve more risk of contamination: “There are a lot of manufacturing steps with ultraprocessed foods, which can be the contact time with the plastic food processing equipment, so it increases.” “”
Dr. Muncke Believe Your research is a step in the right direction:
This systematic evidence map helps to fill the gaps in the knowledge about the source of MNP in food. However, it also shows that additional research is needed to better characterize MNP migration related to FCA materials and uses. It is important to highlight that the implementation of a harmonized evidence and reports frame is key to guaranteeing reliable and comparable data, which can inform future policy decisions.
David Andrews, interim scientific director in the Environmental Working Group” said CNN: “This new study highlights the packaging and processing equipment of food such as potentially significant sources of microplastic pollution in the food we eat and, ultimately, in our bodies. This study increases alarms.”
In fact, it should.
Mister Another study Which illustrates that our expectations about the risks of microplastics are not always valid. Researchers from the State Food Agency in France Anses discovered that drinks sold in glass bottles actually have further Microplastics in them that those who do in plastic bottles. Cola glass bottles, lemonade, iced tea and beer had at least five times the amount of participations that bottles or plastic cans.
“We expected the opposite result when we compared the level of microplastics in different drinks sold in France”, ” saying Doctoral student Iseline Chaib, who conducted the research. It turns out that bottles are the problem. Mrs. Chaib explained: “Then we noticed that in the glass, the particles that emerged from the samples were the same shape, color and polymer composition, therefore, the same plastic, that the paint outside the tapas that select the glass bottles.”
Do you remember what Dr. Zimmerman warned about the dangers of repeated bottles and closure?
The team suggested that manufacturers use a cleaning method to blow air in the lids and the increase in water and alcohol, which could reduce pollution by 60 percent. Consumers were also advised to rinse the limits before replacing them.
Last but not least, A role For the undergraduate student of Biology at West Virginia University, Isabella Tuzzio, tested the presence of microplastics in fish of the central toilet streams, and found them in each sampled fish. Each fish averaged 40 pieces of microplastics.
The document concludes: “In general, we conclude that microplastic pollution is present and extends in fresh water ecosystems in the regions of the northern and surrounding center to atmospheres “. “
“Microplastics come from daily sources such as synthetic laundry fibers and plastic accounts in exfoliating facial washing,” Mrs. Tuzzio saying. “Now they are everywhere, from our currents to remote deserts and even the human body.”
She thinks we should be worried:
These plastics are small, but their impact is massive. They carry contaminants, heavy metals and antibiotics. And while microplastics extend in narrower fish, larger fish eat those narrower fish. As you advance in the food chain, there are very concentrated levels of these plastics. It is a problem for them and for us too.
I am quite worried. We know that microplastics are everywhere, from the bottom of the ocean to the top of the atmosphere, and everywhere. We know that they are through our food system and through our bodies. We still do not have enough data on what exactly the health risks of all this exhibition are, but we have a scarce evidence that it is not good.
I will grant you that microplastics They are on the RFK JR radarBut surely I would like to move it ahead of Trust in vaccines ORPÍN Eliminate food dyes.
Kim is a former emarketing executive in an important blues plan, editor of The Late & larmente Tintura.ioAnd now regular THCB collaborator
