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Freeman@lemmy.pub to Science@beehaw.org · 2 years ago

Billions of nanoplastics released when microwaving baby food containers

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Billions of nanoplastics released when microwaving baby food containers

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Freeman@lemmy.pub to Science@beehaw.org · 2 years ago
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Billions of nanoplastics released when microwaving baby food containers: Exposure to plastic particles kills up to 75% of cultured kidney cells
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Experiments showed that microwaving plastic baby food containers can release huge numbers of plastic particles -- in some cases, more than 2 billion nanoplastics and 4 million microplastics for every square centimeter of container.
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    Its not the microwave, its the plastic container.

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      How is it that we’ve been using microwaves with plastic containers inside them for decades and yet no one has checked this before?

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        It’s only this particular kind of plastic in its specific state with respect to the liquid placed inside of it, also the fact that the worry of micro/nano-plastics is relatively new.

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          specific state

          California?

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            with respect to the liquid placed inside of it

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