The release of the gums hundreds of fine plastic in the mouth, but the effect is inconceivable health
Hundreds of gums export hundreds of accurate plastic directly in the mouth, according to the study of an introduction on Tuesday (25), although scientists remain careful about their potential impact on consumer health.
Every day, humans inhale, inhale, or touch through the skin with plastic microscopic particles (less than five millimeters), which have already been discovered in the air, water, food, packing, artificial tissues or cosmetics.
From the lungs to the kidneys to the blood and the brain, accurate plastic is found almost all over the human body. Although scientists are not sure of their influence on health, many of them have already expressed concern.
Agence France -Presse said that Sanjay Mohante, the main author of the study presented at a meeting of the American Society for Chemistry and Review by other experts, but has not yet been published: “I do not want to disturb people.”
The University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA) said that there is no evidence of a direct link between the exact plastic and the changes in human health.
Instead, the aim of this study was to highlight a slightly explored path, as small and invisible plastic fractures often come to our bodies: gum.
Lisa Louie, a PhD at the University of California in Los Angeles, chew seven pieces of ten different brands of chewing and the researchers conducted a chemical analysis of their saliva. They concluded that a gram of gums has released an average of 100 small plastic players, but some chewing gum launched more than 600. The average weight of the gums is 1.5 herb.
People who hide about 180 chews annually can eat about 30,000 players in accurate plastic and scientists according to. Mohante explained that a small amount compared to many other occasions in which it can be eaten exact plastic.
For example, other researchers estimated last year that a liter of water in a plastic bottle containing 240,000 delicate plastic.
The researchers said that the most common type of gum in supermarkets is called synthetic contains oil -based polymers for a chewing effect. However, the package does not mention plastic, only saying “the base of the gums.”
“No one will tell you about the ingredients.”
Researchers have tested five brands of chewing gum and five natural brands that use plant -based polymers such as Trees SAP. “We were surprised when we found that accurate plastic was abundant in both,” Louis told AFP.
He added that chewing gum release all the fine plastic in the first eight minutes of chewing.
David Jones, a researcher at the University of Portsmouth, in the United Kingdom, who did not participate in the study, said he was surprised that the researchers found some plastic materials that are usually present in chewing gum, indicating that they may be from another source, such as the water that drank the student.
However, he considered that the total results were not “amazing at all.”
Agence France Presse Regley, the world’s largest gum manufacturing company, has contacted, but she did not get any response.
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