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tantalor 4 hours ago

tldr, not much because we can't measure it to begin with

Agrue8u 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

did read, >e360: Do we really eat a credit card’s worth of plastic each week? >Rauert: That has absolutely been debunked

and >...we found is that lipids and fats will give you a false positive for polyethylene. Lipids are made up of the same building blocks as polyethylene, so when we analyze them, they look identical in our analysis instrument. >I know it is easy to say we don’t have enough information yet, but we do know about [the health risks from] these chemicals that are in all the plastics that your food is wrapped in.

culi 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Not just because we can't measure it but because its hard to say what's due to the plastic and what's due to additives in the plastics

> And while we know a lot about the impact of chemicals added to plastic — such as phthalates, which have been shown to impact fertility, or bisphenols, which have been linked to Type 2 diabetes — we know very little about what effect the plastic particles themselves might be having.