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This is more abbreviated than normal, due to being originally from Ass. Press.

Water filtration, using metal or glass for food and drinking purposes, and even staying away from non-paper tea bags. Believe it, or not, a study found in excess of 13 BILLION nano and micro plastics in just one cup of brewed tea from a common retail tea that uses those fancy plastic webbing bags.

We are going to stop getting those teas, and maybe carefully cut the bags of what we have and dump them into one of our infusers.

Something of note: A prior study also showed that antioxidants expected to be in tea were greatly minimized when tea was brewed with a plastic bet teabag.

My guess, now, is that the plastic acquired the antioxidants for its use, with the antioxidants simply going where they were needed, and plastics do need a form of antioxidants to prevent breaking down.

1 posted on 03/09/2024 4:40:34 PM PST by ConservativeMind
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2 posted on 03/09/2024 4:41:16 PM PST by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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Our ability to find infinitesimally small amounts of anything leads to the assumption that everything causes everything.

Correlation is not causation.

5 posted on 03/09/2024 6:18:15 PM PST by marktwain (The Republic is at risk. Resistance to the Democratic Party is Resistance to Tyranny. )
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1950 cvd death rate 588

2019 161

No doubt mostly smoking, but there’s a lot more plastic around now than there was then


6 posted on 03/09/2024 6:33:21 PM PST by sopo
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I use loose tea and a steel strainer ball.

A Chinese girlfriend said they put floor sweeping in teabags.

7 posted on 03/09/2024 6:39:33 PM PST by Eagles6 (Welcome to the Matrix . Orwell's "1984" was a warning, not an instruction manual.)
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RESULTS A total of 304 patients were enrolled in the study, and 257 completed a mean (±SD) follow-up of 33.7±6.9 months. Polyethylene was detected in carotid artery plaque of 150 patients (58.4%), with a mean level of 21.7±24.5 μg per milligram of plaque; 31 patients (12.1%) also had measurable amounts of polyvinyl chloride, with a mean level of 5.2±2.4 μg per milligram of plaque. Electron microscopy revealed visible, jagged-edged foreign particles among plaque macrophages and scattered in the external debris. Radiographic examination showed that some of these particles included chlorine. Patients in whom MNPs were detected within the atheroma were at higher risk for a primary end-point event than those in whom these substances were not detected (hazard ratio, 4.53; 95% confidence interval, 2.00 to 10.27; P<0.001).
The study suggests that government provided municipal drinking water is one very large suspect, but don't go pointing fingers: Italy is a large consumer of domestically caught fish in waters teeming with microplastics from treated sewage water releases from all countries bordering the Med... /s

Seriously, though, despite the rather pathetic study (they concede in the paper that their samples may have been contaminated in the lab), this is evidence of a biological reaction to microplastics and more (read 'professional') research is needed.

9 posted on 03/10/2024 7:27:33 AM PDT by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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