Author: Robby Berman / Source: Big Think
- All subjects selected for a pilot program had microplastics in their stools.
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It was just a small study from a team of researchers led by gastroenterologist Philipp Schwabl of the Medical University of Vienna, but all eight people selected as subjects in the warm-up experiment for further research were found to have microplastics in their stools.
Schwabl tells The New York Times, “This is the first study of its kind, so we did a pilot trial to see if there are any microplastics detectable at all. The results were astonishing.” Making this even more surprising is that subjects were from a range of places: Austria, Finland, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Poland, Russia, and the UK.Scientists have been concerned for some time about plastics making their way into our bodies from various sources, and this small study is the first to find significant amounts of the stuff. “Of particular concern is what this means to us, and especially patients with gastrointestinal diseases,” Schwabl tells CNN. “While the highest plastic concentrations in animal studies have been found in the gut, the smallest microplastic particles are capable of entering the…
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