Microplastics found in human blood for the first time

[Judi Lynn]

By: Scripps NationalPosted at 12:19 PM, Mar 25, 2022 and last updated 11:19 AM, Mar 25, 2022

For the first time, researchers have discovered microplastics in the human bloodstream.

The study by Dutch researchers was published in the Environment International academic journal.

"This is proof that we have plastics in our body -- and we shouldn't,"Dick Vethaak, an ecotoxicologist at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, told AFP.

The study claims the plastic particles could have entered into the human body by air, water, food or even personal care products such as toothpaste and lip gloss.

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[Tactical Peek]

1. Foreshadowed:

[TreasonousBastard]

2. Considering the amount of plastic released into the environment, and...

the amount already found in other species, I can't help going back to my thinking that it is too big a problem to solve, and we may just as well adjust to believing we will evolve to include plastic as a basic biological building block.

If we last that long.

[Warpy]

4. The problem is that as the plastiuc load in plant and animal tissues increases

the nutritional value will decline. It will take a long time to happen and might not happen if we act now, but if we condinue to pump out vast quantities of cheap plastic packaging, it will eventually happen. We'll starve even in lands of plenty.

[TreasonousBastard]

5. Makes me even more happy I won't be around then. But...

our technical prowess combined with our desire for survival will undoubtedly come up with a solution.

Not necessarily what we might see as a particularly good solution, but it does depend on whether we last all.

[Blue Owl]

3. It's just the new Castrol Synthetic Blood the Gen-Z'ers are running these days