Old Chewed Up Bubble Gum

And if you redecorate your home and sand down the old paintwork, the plastic binders in the paint can release microplastics into the air, which you might then inhale. You could swallow them when you drink from single-use plastic water bottles. Now another source of microplastics in the body has been discovered: chewing gum.

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Your chewing gum may be full of microplastics

Chewing gum could release hundreds to thousands of microplastic particles into your saliva, a new UCLA study finds.

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Chewing gum dirty secret: Bubble gum detonates microplastic bombs in your mouth

And now, researchers are finding them in chewing gum. A pilot study revealed that chewing gum releases hundreds of these ...

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If You Chew Gum, This Is How Many Pieces of Microplastic You Could Be Ingesting Every Year

Instead, “both synthetic and natural gums had similar amounts of microplastics released when we chewed them,” Lowe said. The release says large pieces of gum release up to 3,000 pieces of.micr ...

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Here’s what happens if you swallow chewing gum

Maybe you were in the middle of a conversation, distracted, or just got a little too carried away with your bubble ... up, let’s take a trip through history. Did you know that chewing gum ...

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Chew with caution: Scientists find microplastics in gum

Chewing gum can shed potentially harmful microplastics into saliva, warns new research. A pilot study found that the popular product can release hundreds to thousands of microplastics per piece ...

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Most Chewing Gum Is Essentially Plastic, Filling Your Mouth with Microplastics

A mouthful of chewing gum might also be a mouthful of microplastics, according to the results of a small pilot study. The research, presented at the spring meeting of the American Chemical Society ...

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