Microplastics Found In Human Stool From Eight Countries.

reports researchers found “microplastics in stool samples of people from eight countries”: Austria, Finland, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Poland, Russia, and the United Kingdom. The findings indicate the “concentration of contaminants” was “20 microplastic particles per 10 grams of stool,” which researchers consider to be “relatively low.” The NPR (10/22, Neimark) “The Salt” blog reports that “microplastics, range from 10 nanometers – so tiny they are invisible to the human eye – up to five millimeters in diameter,” and “are floating in the air, and are found in most of our bottled and tap water, our beer, our sea, rock and lake salt, and our soil.” https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/22/health/microplastics-human-stool.html