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Invisible Threats in Himalayan Region: Unmasking the Impact of Microplastic Pollution on Human Health Today and Tomorrow
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Researchers examined microplastic pollution in the Himalayan region, revealing that even this remote environment is contaminated by plastic particles and assessing the associated risks to human health from ingestion and inhalation of microplastics in food, water, and air.
Microplastic pollution is abundant in aquatic and land atmospheres. Nowadays, studies on microplastics impact in the human health have a global concern to the researchers, health authorities, policy makers, civil opinion, media, as well as environmental and...
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