Their study, published in the Journal of Hazardous Materials, shows how chewing gum could be an unexpected (and overlooked) source of exposure to microplastics and even nanoplastics — the tiniest fragments of plastic that break down from larger materials.
🧪🧼 Chewing Gum… and Microplastics?!
Researchers at Queen’s University Belfast have uncovered something shocking — just one piece of chewing gum could release over 250,000 microplastic particles into your saliva in less than an hour. 😳
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