Thank you for the response, apparently asking pertinent questions around here is worthwhile of downvotes for some reason.
My next question would be how carcinogenic are they and how big is this risk with all else accounted for? Plenty of things from water to the very air we breathe are carcinogens, it’s a question of scale.
Right now the cytotoxic effects are the only effects confirmed in humans I believe.
We are consuming microplastics at an alarming rate, it’s found in our stomach, brain, lungs and blood. Fish and drinking water are the two largest sources of human ingestion of microplastics.
If carcinogenic then it would likely be pretty substantial.
Thank you for the response, apparently asking pertinent questions around here is worthwhile of downvotes for some reason.
My next question would be how carcinogenic are they and how big is this risk with all else accounted for? Plenty of things from water to the very air we breathe are carcinogens, it’s a question of scale.
Research into those topics is still ongoing.
Right now the cytotoxic effects are the only effects confirmed in humans I believe.
We are consuming microplastics at an alarming rate, it’s found in our stomach, brain, lungs and blood. Fish and drinking water are the two largest sources of human ingestion of microplastics.
If carcinogenic then it would likely be pretty substantial.