The danger of microplastics is growing as more and more plastics find their way into food and threaten to affect our health in several ways. A new study published in the journal JAMA Network Open on Monday found that tiny plastic shards and fibres were found in the nose tissue of human cadavers. The microplastic pieces were said to be discovered in the olfactory bulb, the part of the nose that detects odors that sit at the brain base.
Not just brain, studies done in the past, have established that microplastics and nanoplastics are making their way into lung, liver, the testes and the penis, human blood, urine and feces, mother’s milk and even placenta. According to a study published in Yonsei Medical Journal (YMJ), the threats that microplastics present to the human body have not yet been clearly identified. Previous reports say that ultrafine microplastic absorption resulted in complex toxicity in zebrafish, and that microplastics under 100 nm in size can reach almost all organs after entering the human body.
