Gum releases hundreds of microplastics in the mouth, but the effect is uncertain | Health

According to a study submitted by Maskar Gum on Tuesday (25), scientists are cautious about their impact on consumer health, according to a study submitted on Tuesday (25), hundreds of microplastics will be released directly in the mouth.

Every day, humans are taken through the skin with plastic microParticles (less than five millimeters), inhale or contact, which are already found in air, water, food, packaging, synthetic tissues or cosmetics.

Microplastics were found in almost all parts of the human body, from the lung piercings to the blood and the brain. While scientists are not aware of their influence on health, many have already expressed concern.

Sanjay Mohanty said, “I don’t want to alert people,” said Sanjay Mohanty, the main author of the study, submitted at the AFP American Society of Chemistry meeting and other experts, but has not yet been published.

Researcher at the University of California at the Los Angeles (UCLA) said there was no direct contact between microplastics and changes in human health.

Instead, the goal of the study is to highlight the little, often invisible, plastic fractions in our body to highlight a little explorable path: chewing gum.

UCLA Doctoral student Lisa Lov has chewed seven pieces of ten different chewing brands and researchers demonstrated the chemical analysis of their saliva. They concluded that an average of 100 microplastics were released, but some chewing gum was released on an average gram of gum. The average weight of gum is 1.5 grass.

People who mask 180 wheels per year can eat 30,000 microplastics, scientists. Mohanhanti explained an important amount compared to many other cases where microplastics could be taken.

For example, other researchers estimate that last year’s plastic bottle had an average of 240,000 microplastics in one liter of water.

In the supermarkets known as Synthetic, the gum type that usually sells is oil based polymers, to get chewing effect, researchers say. However, the packaging is not mentioned in plastic, only the “gum base”.

“No one tells you what the ingredients are,” Mohanty said.

Researchers have tested five natural chewing gum brands that use plant -based polymers such as five brands synthetic chewing gum and trees sap. “We are surprised that we are abundant in both microplastics,” said Lowe AFP.

Chewing gum releases almost all microplastics in the first eight minutes of chewing.

David Jones, a researcher at the University of Portsmouth in the United Kingdom, did not participate in this study, suggesting that the researchers were surprised that they were surprised that they had found some plastics that were not usually in Chewing.

However, he felt that the whole results were “no wonderful”.

AFP has contacted the world’s largest gum manufacturer Rigly, but has not received the response.

DL/IC/ALU/BOW/HGS/ZM/JMO/FP