{"id":26298,"date":"2020-08-20T13:27:19","date_gmt":"2020-08-20T13:27:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cmshub.wpengine.com\/?p=321044"},"modified":"2024-11-03T15:16:20","modified_gmt":"2024-11-03T15:16:20","slug":"microplastics-can-be-detected-in-human-organ-tissue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/microplastics-can-be-detected-in-human-organ-tissue\/","title":{"rendered":"Microplastics Can Be Detected In Human Organ Tissue"},"content":{"rendered":"

You may have heard of how microplastics have polluted the oceans, filled the stomachs of fish and whales, and even wound up in Arctic snow, now these insidious plastic particles are being found much closer to home.<\/span>Scientists can now detect microplastics in the human body.<\/span>According to The Guardian<\/a>, researchers have identified chemical traces of plastic in human organ tissue. The traces being so small, it his hard to tell if they are the result of microplastics from the water system or airborne plastics, but the findings are nonetheless unprecedented.<\/span>\"Microplastics<\/span>Source: flickr\/Oregon State University<\/a>
Microplastics are the result of plastic pollution.<\/span>\u201cIt would be naive to believe there is plastic everywhere but just not in us,\u201d said Rolf Halden at Arizona State University. \u201cWe are now providing a research platform that will allow us and others to look for what is invisible \u2013 these particles too small for the naked eye to see. The risk [to health] really resides in the small particles.\u201d<\/span>Halden and his team have developed a process that allows them to \u201cidentify dozens of types of plastic, including the polyethylene terephthalate (PET) used in plastic drinks bottles and the polyethylene used in plastic bags,\u201d The Guardian reports. Among those compounds is also bisphenol A (BPA), which was present in all 47 samples.<\/span>\"Microplastics<\/span>Source: National Parks Service<\/a><\/span>According to the US Environmental Protection Agency<\/a>, BPA has been found to pose serious risks to reproductive, developmental and systemic health issues.<\/span>\u201cWe never want to be alarmist, but it is concerning that these non-biodegradable materials that are present everywhere [may] enter and accumulate in human tissues, and we don\u2019t know the possible health effects,\u201d said Varun Kelkar of Arizona State University, part of the research team.<\/span>\"Humans<\/span>Source: pxhere
Humans consume thousands of microplastics every year.<\/span>\u201cOnce we get a better idea of what\u2019s in the tissues, we can conduct epidemiological studies to assess human health outcomes,\u201d he said. \u201cThat way, we can start to understand the potential health risks, if any.\u201d<\/span>The researchers are sharing the details of their process online and hope their findings will also enable others looking at human-borne pollution around the world.<\/span>\"Researchers<\/span>Source: pxhere
Researchers are now able to detect microplastics in the human body.<\/span>\u201cThis shared resource will help build a plastic exposure database so that we can compare exposures in organs and groups of people over time and geographic space,\u201d Halden said.<\/span>In the ocean, microplastics hav been found to disrupt the cognitive process of some marine creatures<\/a>. As National Geographic<\/a> reports, humans eat thousands of these plastic pieces a year, and we still are not completely sure what effects they have on our bodies.<\/span>\u201cA lot of the items we considered are the ones you\u2019re eating raw. We haven\u2019t gotten to the layers and layers of plastic packaging,\u201d said researcher Kieran Cox. \u201cI think it\u2019s probably the case that more plastic is being added than we realize.\u201d<\/span>Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You may have heard of how microplastics have polluted the oceans, filled the stomachs of fish and whales, and even wound up in Arctic snow, now these insidious plastic particles are being found much closer to home.Scientists can now detect microplastics in the human body.According to The Guardian, researchers have identified chemical traces of plastic […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":26299,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26298"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45585,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26298\/revisions\/45585"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}