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Billions of nanoplastics released when microwaving baby food containers (www.sciencedaily.com)
submitted 1 year ago by freeman@lemmy.pub to c/science
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[โ€“] manitcor@lemmy.intai.tech 45 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (13 children)
  1. Babyfood containers are NSF plastic meant to be microwavable
  2. They only tested babyfood containers and a pouch
  3. these containers are made out of the same plastics used in many microwaveable products

I'm not microwaving plastic ever again.

[โ€“] LiesSlander 19 points 1 year ago

For real, this is sobering information. I already try to avoid microwaving plastics, but I'm gonna be even more careful now, and try to spread this study. Billions of nanoplastics per square centimeter, it's scary to think about the size of containers, number that would likely be used in a day, and the fact that infants are so small with that information in context.

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