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Have You Heard This News, Plastic Found on Baby Poop?
Is This the Origin Story of Plastic Man
Is it too early to be talking about baby poop?
There is news on Wired today about microplastics found on baby poop, it is real, and scientists are still figuring out what this means to our babies.
The study quoted by Wired is — Occurrence of Polyethylene Terephthalate and Polycarbonate Microplastics in Infant and Adult Feces By: Junjie Zhang, Lei Wang, Leonardo Trasande, and Kurunthachalam Kannan.
Abstract
Although human exposure to microplastics (MPs) and the health effects thereof are a global concern, little is known about the magnitude of exposure. In this study, we quantitatively determined the concentrations of polyethylene terephthalate (PET) and polycarbonate (PC) MPs in three meconium and six infant and 10 adult feces samples collected from New York State. PET and PC MPs…
