A new mouse study tested what happens when food is prepared on plastic cutting boards and the resulting microplastics end up in the diet. The team chopped on polyethylene and polypropylene boards, mixed the released particles into feed, and watched how the gut responded over weeks. These tiny particles, called microplastics, are fragments of plastic smaller than 0.2 inches that …
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