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There is still too much plastic in the mineral water bottles

Columbia University: each packaging contains 240,000 nanoplastic fragments, enough for health risks

There’s still too much plastic in the mineral water bottles. This is attested by the surveys of the latest research conducted by scientists from Columbia University who have discovered that a liter of bottled water contains, on average, about 240,000 detectable plastic fragments: we are talking about a quantity ranging from 10 to 100 times more than previously estimated, a quantity that is still s...

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Roma, RM, Italia, 01/09/2024 19:56
EFA News - European Food Agency

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