The pollution of accurate plastic is widespread in seafood, which was taken from them in a recent study, which increases the increasing evidence of the spread of dangerous substances in the country’s diet, and an increasing threat to human health.
the Study of the counterparts Mache plastic was discovered in 99 %, or 180 out of 182, a sample of seafood either bought in the store or from the fishing boat in Oregon. The highest levels are found in shrimp.
The researchers also identified that the most common type of fine plastic was fiber of clothes or textiles, which represents more than 80 % of the material they discovered.
“The results highlight a serious problem with plastic use on a large scale,” Eliz Grank, a researcher at Portland State University, a plastic researcher at the University of Portland, a co -author and co -author of the study.
Gran said: “As long as we use plastic as a major element in our daily life and use it in a wide way, we will see them in our food as well,” Gran said.
Methods have been discovered in water samples around the world, and it is believed that food is the main way of exposure: recent studies were found in All meat and Product production It was tested.
Deficient plastic pollution can contain any number of 16,000 plastic chemicals, and it is often linked Very toxic Vehicles – like PFAS, Dual Vinol and Machines Associated with cancer, neurological toxicity, hormone disruption, or toxicity.
The material can cross brain and Placenta The barriers, and those who have the tissues of their heart are weak possible To suffer from a heart attack or stroke over the next few years.
The study took samples of five types of fins and pink shrimp, and found that accurate plastic could travel from gills or mouths to the meat that humans eat. Granic said researchers suspected that high levels of shrimp and herring condemn them to feed the plankton on the surface of the water.
Granic said that plankton often accumulates on the front fronts and moves in the tide in the same way as strict plastic. The young man also shows the lamp that feeds around the river course also appears higher levels, but the levels have decreased in the oldest Lamprey that moves to the ocean.
Xinuk Salmon showed the lowest levels, although it was not completely compared to apples for apples – the researchers only looked at the fillet, which is often what humans eat, and examined the full body of smaller fish and shrimp.
The levels of pollutants are often higher than the nutritional chain because the major animals eat smaller animals, and the accumulation of materials, a process called biological breathing. This was not observed here, most likely because smaller fish feed in areas where fine plastic focuses.
Microscopic plastic levels were higher in Lingcod that was purchased from the store, most likely because they are more treated than those purchased from a boat. The levels were slightly higher, but they are not statistically significant, in the treated shrimp against that which was purchased from the boat.
The authors do not recommend avoiding seafood because microc of the microblasts are widely found in meat and products, so changing eating patterns will not help. They have found that rinsing seafood could reduce levels.
Granic said on the individual level, that washing machines are a major source of pollution, so that people can wash less clothes, wash with cold water, and try to avoid artificial fabrics and fast fashion.
Ultimately, the solution must come at the level of politics and the use of plastic must be reduced, and filters that hunt accurate plastic should be on the washing machines.
A draft law requesting the approval of the legislative body in California in 2023, but it was Veto By the governor of the state, Gavin News, who said critics resulted in the pressure of industry. A similar bill has been presented in Oregon.
Gran said: “If we do not want the accurate plastic in our food, we will have to make changes to our daily practices.”
