Home Health Microplastics In All Salt & Sugar Brands Of India, Claims Study According to recent research, Microplastics can harm your lungs, heart & reproductive system, check how it impacts your health. Microplastics In All Salt & Sugar Brands All Indian salt and sugar brands, whether big or small, packaged or unpackaged, contain microplastics, according … Read more
Home Business Microplastics In All Salt & Sugar Brands Of India, Claims Study According to recent research, Microplastics can harm your lungs, heart & reproductive system, check how it impacts your health. Microplastics In All Salt & Sugar Brands All Indian salt and sugar brands, whether big or small, packaged or unpackaged, contain microplastics, according … Read more
Bengaluru: A study by New Delhi-based environmental NGO Toxics Link measured the amount of microplastics (MPs) present in several sugar and salt brands in India. The study comprehensively laid out details about the type, shapes, sizes and colours of microplastics present in samples, and concluded with recommendations to improve existing manufacturing processes to shift away … Read more
Study finds harmful microplastics in every single human testicleA recent study conducted by researchers at the University of New Mexico has identified 12 types of microplastics in human testes. Published in the journal Toxicological Sciences, the study underscores the “potential consequences for male fertility.” The testes analyzed were collected from post mortems performed in 2016, … Read more
A new study by researchers at the University of New Mexico has found 12 types of microplastics human testes. The study published in the journal Toxicological Sciences highlights the “potential consequences for male fertility.” The testes analysed were obtained from postmortems in 2016, with the men ranging in age from 16 to 88 when they … Read more
PANAJI: Polymers in microplastics may pose a risk to the Indo-Gangetic plain, a study on rivers Ganga and Yamuna by the Goa-based CSIR-National Institute of Oceanography has concluded. The study titled ‘A comprehensive assessment of macro and microplastics from Rivers Ganga and Yamuna: Unveiling the seasonal, spatial and risk factors’, has been published in the … Read more
The unseen impact of sipping water from plastic bottles Are you guilty of buying plastic packaged water bottles on the go? Do you refill them and drink water or place them in the refrigerator? Here’s your sign to stop doing so. While convenient, these seemingly harmless vessels can harbor a sinister threat to our health … Read more
Adults will get through more than 200 billion single-use plastic water bottles in a lifetime – despite acknowledging it could be bad for their health. A study of 2,000 people found 27 percent are regular users, with the average plastic bottle drinker buying five per month. But more than a fifth (22 percent) believe water … Read more
Health Canada is funding new research that will look into the potential risk to humans of microplastics that are found everywhere and could be toxic. Researchers at three Canadian universities — McGill University, Memorial University of Newfoundland and the University of Toronto — have been tasked to study “the potential exposure to microplastics from various … Read more
Staying hydrated is key to our health and wellbeing, with water the best drink for doing so. And when we’re on the go, bottled water is a convenient solution. In the UK we love bottled water so much that we consume almost three billion litres of it every year. But while we may think this … Read more