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Data for: You are what you eat: Microplastics in the feces of young men living in Beijing
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This is a data repository entry for images and particle count data from a study examining microplastics in the feces of young men in Beijing. The entry contains supporting data rather than a research narrative.
Data on the content of microplastic and related images
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