• Neato@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Is this the kind of study like when they injected aspartame into rats’ brains in huge quantities and they got sick? Because this kind of overexposure isn’t useful. The dose makes the poison and exposing cells to overwhelming amounts of anything will kill them.

    To test what these plastics do to our bodies once they’re consumed, the team bathed human embryonic kidney cells in the plastic roughage shed by the baby-food containers. (The team chose this kind of cell because kidneys have so much contact with ingested plastic.) After two days of exposure to concentrated microplastics and nanoplastics, about 75 percent of the kidney cells died

    Bathed. Concentrated. Two words that prove this won’t be anywhere near reality. We need studies on how this affects people with real-world conditions. Not artificial conditions that are so far from reality that the effects observed are meaningless.