Love eating ice-cold oysters-on-the-half-shell in the summertime? Enjoy a large bowl of mussels cooked in garlic, wine, butter and parsley? Then you may be a bit discouraged to learn that, as per Megan Schaltegger at Delish, both oysters and mussels "contain 'disturbingly high levels of fiberglass.'" Perhaps it's a good time to curtail your consumption a bit, at least in the interim.
Schaltegger writes that The Journal of Hazardous Materials published the research; lead author Corina Ciocan tells Newsweek that "our findings show a disturbing level of glass-reinforced plastic contamination in marine life." The shellfish samples, which were collected on the south coast of England, reportedly contained "11,220 glass particles per kilogram, while the mussels had 2,740 particles per kilogram," as per Schaltegger.
