Trilobites: Microplastics Find Their Way Into Your Gut, A Pilot Study Finds

DOUGLAS QUENQUA, NY Times: Health
Mon, 10/22/2018 - 3:00pm

Researchers looked for microplastics in stool samples of people from eight countries. “The results were astonishing,” they said.

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