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Microplastics in Human Food Items
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Researchers documented the widespread presence of microplastics across the human food supply — found in seafood, salt, honey, beer, and tap water — highlighting that virtually no food category is free from plastic contamination and that daily dietary exposure is unavoidable.
Tiny fragments of plastic wastes known as microplastics (MPs) are ubiquitous in nature; they occur in air, land and water media. Their presence in the global
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