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Exploring Everyday Microplastics Exposures: Summary Report
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Researchers summarized findings from a major review of over 350 studies, cataloging human external microplastic exposure sources across daily life categories from outdoor environments and indoor spaces to children's products, personal care items, and food and drink.
Exploring Everyday Microplastic Exposures: Summary Report presents key findings of the main report, which draws on over 350 peer-reviewed studies of human external exposure to microplastics across five categories of everyday life: outdoor sources, indoor environments, children’s products, healthcare and personal care and food and drink. Commissioned by the Plastic Soup Foundation with financial support from the Flotilla Charitable Foundation.
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