Every time you chew gum, you’re filling your mouth with plastic
Gum is made of plastic, and chewing both synthetic and natural gums could release microplastics into your mouth, according to ...
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Chewing gum dirty secret: Bubble gum detonates microplastic bombs in your mouth
And now, researchers are finding them in chewing gum. A pilot study revealed that chewing gum releases hundreds of these ...
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Chewing gum can shed microplastics into saliva, pilot study finds
In a pilot study, researchers found that chewing gum can release hundreds to thousands of microplastics per piece into saliva and potentially be ingested. Plastic is everywhere. And many products ...
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Chewing gum can shed microplastics into saliva, research finds
plastic everywhere. In Estero Bay ... Melissa and her students start by collecting oysters from 5 different reefs. One of the things that we look at. When we check them is basically how healthy ...