The Cool Down on MSN3d
Scientists issue warning after making disturbing find in chewing gum: 'The people I talk to are always surprised ... when they find out'
Most manufacturers don’t advertise what the item is actually made of. Scientists issue warning after making disturbing find ...
ZME Science on MSN4d
Your Gum Is Shedding Microplastics into Your Saliva
Stop munching on that plastic. The U.S. National Institute of Health estimates that over 350 billion pieces of chewing gum ...
The Most Important Ingredient in Chewing Gum
When you chew gum, you’re essentially gnawing on plastic.
Chewing gum: another way for microplastics to enter your body?
And if you redecorate your home and sand down the old paintwork, the plastic binders in the paint can release microplastics ...
Chewing gum is plastic pollution, not a litter problem
Thousands of tons of plastic pollution could be escaping into the environment every year … from our mouths. Most chewing gum ...
CNN5d
Chewing gum can shed microplastics into saliva, research finds
The authors were surprised to find that chewing natural gums didn’t really make a difference. The average number of microplastics in 1 gram of synthetic gum was 104, and in natural gum it was 96.
New York Post5d
Microplastics linked to 3 chronic diseases — and now they’ve been detected in gum
The new study, led by University of California, Los Angeles researchers, aimed to uncover yet another way these harmful particles make their way into our bodies: through chewing gum. Gum is made ...