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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Health
Rebecca Whittaker

The breakthrough tests that could map where microplastics have clustered in your body

Microplastics used in coffee cups and plastic bags have been detected by scientists using a laser light to map the build-up of the tiny particles in the body.

Plastic particles have been found in fish, ocean trenches, the air we breathe, and our clothes. But detecting just how much of these microplastics end up in the human body was previously only possible through dissection.

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