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Low-Density Polyethylene Microplastics in the Blood Seems not Induce Alzheimer’s Disease in Wistar Rat

Public Health Open Access 2023
Soedjajadi Keman

Summary

Researchers investigated whether low-density polyethylene microplastics in the blood trigger Alzheimer's disease in Wistar rats, noting that these particles enter the human body through contaminated food sources including table salt, fish, tea bags, and drinking water.

Polymers
Study Type Environmental

Microplastic particles <5 mm in the blood pose health problems to humans. One of the entry points for low density polyethylene microplastics in the human blood is through consumption of contaminated food. These low density polyethylene microplastic particles are found in table salt, canned sardines, beer, sea fish, honey, sugar, tea bags, minerals and drinking water. These findings estimated between 37 to as high as billion microplastic particles from those various food products. The number of low density polyethylene microplastic particles that contaminate food and beverages will continue to increase along with the increase in plastic debris in the environment.

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