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Title    Microplastics Found in 90 Percent of Table Salt
Date    Sunday October 21 2018, @06:46AM
Author    Fnord666
Topic   
from the salty-about-plastic dept.
https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=18/10/20/170245

"exec" writes:

Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:

Microplastics were found in sea salt several years ago. But how extensively plastic bits are spread throughout the most commonly used seasoning remained unclear. Now, new research shows microplastics in 90 percent of the table salt brands sampled worldwide.

Of 39 salt brands tested, 36 had microplastics in them, according to a new analysis by researchers in South Korea and Greenpeace East Asia. Using prior salt studies, this new effort is the first of its scale to look at the geographical spread of microplastics in table salt and their correlation to where plastic pollution is found in the environment.

"The findings suggest that human ingestion of microplastics via marine products is strongly related to emissions in a given region," said Seung-Kyu Kim, a marine science professor at Incheon National University in South Korea.

[...] The new study, she says, "shows us that microplastics are ubiquitous. It's not a matter of if you are buying sea salt in England, you are safe."

The new study estimates that the average adult consumes approximately 2,000 microplastics per year through salt. What that means remains a mystery.

A separate study by the University of York in Britain that sought to assess the risks of microplastics to the environment, published Wednesday, concluded not enough is known to determine if microplastics cause harm.

[...] That new study, funded by the Personal Care Products Council, an industry trade group, was published in the journal Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry.

Boxall added that the focus on microplastics may divert attention from worse environmental (and more easily identifiable) pollution problems, such as small particles released from car tires.

-- submitted from IRC


Original Submission

Links

  1. "following story" - https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/2018/10/microplastics-found-90-percent-table-salt-sea-salt/
  2. "Greenpeace East Asia" - http://www.greenpeace.org/eastasia/
  3. "Seung-Kyu Kim" - https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Seung_Kyu_Kim
  4. "study," - https://pure.york.ac.uk/portal/en/publications/microplastics-in-the-aquatic-environment(fdeb225c-83cb-4e1f-8cf5-75e43cefe1b8)/export.html
  5. "Personal Care Products Council" - https://www.personalcarecouncil.org/
  6. "Original Submission" - https://soylentnews.org/submit.pl?op=viewsub&subid=29658

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