Not to burst your perfectly blown bubble, but it turns out that chewing gum may be flooding your mouth with microplastics. As detailed in a pilot study which is awaiting peer-review, a team of researchers found that chomping down on just one stick of the rubbery candy releases up to thousands of microplastic shards into your saliva.  The findings, which will be presented at a meeting of the American Chemical Society this week, is yet another example of widespread microplastics pollution, which has been found in places as invasive as the human brain. The authors, however, urge us not to […]

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