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The Netherlands discovered microplastics in human blood for the first time

Microplastics, many of which are only 20% the width of a human hair, were detected in 77% of all healthy adult blood donors in a study by Dutch scientists in 2021.

While the impact of microplastics on the human body is still unknown, these remarkable findings show once again how fossil fuel-derived materials are invading every sphere of life. People.

Professor Dick Vethaak, an expert on environmental pollution at the University of Amsterdam, said: “We are constantly exposed to microplastics, we may have inhaled or ingested them. It must be said that because of overexposure, it is not unusual for microplastics to enter our bloodstream. You may feel very worrisome but it is a fact, as we are exposed to so many harmful chemicals as well as plastic molecules every day. I myself am also worried when thinking about the future, when the level of exposure to plastic materials will increase in the coming decades.”

Microplastics were once found in natural human waste, but the new discovery shocked the scientific world, making researchers wonder and hypothesized that microscopic nanoplastic particles can follow blood to other internal organs in the human body.

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