By Kim Bellard
Vaccine experts berp In response to RFK JR’s attacks on the safety of vaccine. Health Insurers promise – Honest … this time – to make earlier authorizations less difficult (although not of course to eliminate them). Chatgpt and other LLMS possible Teach us worse in. So many things to write about, but I notice that I want to return to a now known subject: Microplastics.
I First written About microplastics in 2020, and the subsequent findings made sure that I have written about their dangers again since then. Now there are new findings, and no, the news is still not good.
A New studyFrom researchers from the Food Packaging Forum, Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology (EAWAG) and Norwegian University of Science and Technology, and published in NPJ Science of Food Ranked 103 previous studies on the impact food package and “Food Contact Articles (FCAs)” can have micro and nanoplastics (MNPs) in our food. They discovered that even normal use – such as opening a plastic bottle, a plastic tea bag with plastic tea or heels on a plastic cutting board – can infect foods.
“This is the first systematic evidence card to investigate the role of the normal and intended use of food contact articles in the contamination of foods with MNPs,” explains Dr. Lisa Zimmermann, main author and scientific communication officer at the Food packaging forum. “Articles for food contact are a relevant source of MNPs in foods; however, their contribution to human MNP exposure is undervalued.”
Their collected data is freely accessible through the Fcmino Dashboard. with which users can filter record data on the FCA type, the most important food contact material, the analyzed medium and / or MNPs are detected, and, if so, for their size and polymer type.
Removing the plastic from items that you buy in the supermarket can contaminate with microplastics, such as a tea bag can drench. Opening pots or bottles of milk is also possible, and repeated opening and closing of glass or plastic bottles throws “unprecedented quantities” of micro and nanoplastics in the drink, according to Dr. Zimmerman, that Further noted: “The research shows that the number of microplastics is increasing with every opening of the bottle, so we can say that it is the use of the food contact article that leads to micro and nanoplastic release,” ”
Dr. Zimmerman told 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 do are avoiding food in plastic where possible and avoiding heating of plastic containers. However, she admitted: “We did not really understand all the factors that can lead to the release of micro and nanoplastics.”
One of her co-authors, Dr. Jane Muncke, director and chief scientific officer at the Food Packaging Forum, warns that ultracroced food entails more risk of infection: “There is a higher number of production steps with ultracrocedo feed, which can increase the contact time with plastic food processing equipment, which increases the risk of micro and nanoplastic migration.”
Dr. Muncke believe Their research is a step in the right direction:
This systematic evidence card helps to fill gaps in knowledge about the source of MNPs in foods. However, it also shows that additional research is needed to better characterize MNP migration with regard to FCA materials and applications. It is important that the implementation of a harmonized test and reporting frame is crucial to guarantee reliable and similar data that can inform future policy decisions.
David Andrews, acting Chief Science Officer at the Environmental Working Group” told CNN: “This new study highlights food packaging and processing equipment as potentially important sources of microplastic contamination in the food we eat, and ultimately in our body. This study must yield alarm bells.”
It should indeed.
Here Another study This illustrates that our expectations about microplastic risks are not always valid. Researchers from the French food agency Anses discovered that drinks that have been sold in glass bottles actually have more Microplastics in it than those in plastic bottles. Glass bottles of coke, lemonade, iced tea and beer had at least five times the amount of particles than plastic bottles or cans.
“We expected the opposite result when we compared the level of microplastics in various drinks that were sold in France,” said PhD student Isine Chaib, who conducted the research. It appears that the caps on the bottles are the problem. Mrs Chaib explained: “We then noticed that in the glass the particles that came from the samples were the same shape, color and polymer composition – so the same plastic – as the paint on the outside of the caps that seal the glass bottles.”
Do you remember what Dr. Zimmerman warned of the dangers of repeated opening and closure of bottles?
The team suggested to use a cleaning method to blow air in the caps and to rise with water and alcohol, which could reduce contamination by 60 percent. Consumers were also advised to rinse caps before they set them up again.
Last but not least, a paper Through the West Virginia University Biology Con long student Isabella Tuzzio, the presence of microplastics tested in fish from Central Appalachian flows – and found them in every sampled fish. Each fish on average 40 microplastics.
De Paper concludes: “In general, we conclude that microplastic contamination is present and is widespread in freshwater ecosystems in the North Center and surrounding Appalachian regions in three large river areas (the Monongahela, Cheat and Ohio Watersheds) … Potential sources of Microplastic.”
“Microplastics come from everyday sources such as synthetic fibers of laundry and plastic beads in exfoliating facial crops,” Mrs. Tuzzio said. “They are now everywhere, from our flows to remote deserts and even the human body.”
She thinks we should worry:
These plastics are small, but their impact is huge. They wear pollutants, heavy metals and antibiotics. And while the microplastics spread in smaller fish, the larger fish eat that smaller fish. While you work your way up on the food chain, there are heavily concentrated levels of these plastics. It is a problem for them and also for us.
I’m a lot of worries. We know that microplastics are everywhere, from the bottom of the ocean to the top of the atmosphere, and everywhere in between. We know that they are in our food system and in our body. We do not yet have enough information about what the health risks of all this exposure are, but we have sufficient evidence that it is not good.
I will grant those microplastics stand on the RFK JR radarBut I wanted to make sure he would go for it undermining trust in vaccines or Removing colorants.
Kim is a former emarketing -exec at a large blue plan, editor of the late & complains Tinctuur.ioand now regular THCB employee
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