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Michael Richardson, Professor of Animal Development, Leiden University

FOUND: Chewing gum another way for microplastics to enter your body - What They Never Told You

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We are riddled with microplastics. It is in our bloodstream, in our lungs, in our liver – pretty much anywhere you look in the human body, you will find minuscule bits of plastic.

And there are many ways for us to ingest, inhale or otherwise absorb these tiny fragments. For example, a single plastic teabag sheds over 10 billion microplastic particles into a cup of tea.

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