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Microplastics in hot water
Nature Food
2020
31 citations
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Philipp Schwabl
Summary
Researchers found that heating water and baby bottles for infant formula preparation can release significant quantities of microplastics from plastic bottle materials, raising concerns about early-life microplastic exposure at a stage when infants may be particularly vulnerable.
Feeding infants with formula requires heating water and bottles for sterilization and formula preparation. Plastic infant feeding bottles are commonly used, and now their potential to release microplastics has been explored at a global scale.