Pervasive Microplastics Are Damaging Your Cells

Lab data show microplastics at levels relevant to human consumption are leading to cell damage and cell death. We breathe it, drink it and eat it beginning in infancy.

STORY AT-A-GLANCE

• Plastic is a problem for the environment, wildlife and human health. Laboratory data show how microplastics at levels relevant to human consumption led to cell death and allergic reactions

• Interestingly, the data also showed that irregularly shaped particles commonly found in the environment, and not the spherical microplastics normally …