Chewing gum is shedding harmful microplastics into your saliva, study finds

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94% of the microplastics in gum were released within the first eight minutes of chewing, researchers found.

That ingredients of the plastics found present have already been linked to heart attack and strokes, inflammatory bowel disease, infertility, cancers, and neurodevelopmental disorders.

For that reason, Lowe suggests that if people want to reduce their potential exposure to microplastics from gum, they should chew one piece longer instead of popping in a new one.

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Author / Journalist: Beth Greenfield

Category: EconomyBusiness

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Published On: 2025-03-27 @ 19:57:55 (3 days ago)

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