Bottled water filled with tiny plastic bits that can harm human health

The following article highlights that researchers at Columbia University have developed a new technology for detecting nanoplastics which are the smallest known plastic particles and used that technology to test bottled water from three major brands.

Nanoplastics are fragments smaller than 1 micrometer, or 1/25,000th of an inch. Larger particles than that are known as microplastics.

The researchers at Columbia found 110,000 to 370,000 particles in each liter of bottled water with 90% being nanoplastics and the rest being microplastics.

Nanoplastics can be more harmful because they can pass through the intestines and the lungs directly into the bloodstream, allowing them to travel to organs throughout the body. It has been found that nanoplastics can cross through the placenta and enter the bodies of unborn babies.

Researchers have just begun to look into the possible health effects of nanoplastics in the body.

Read the attached article to learn more about what the Columbia University researchers found as a result of their important technological breakthrough:

Bottled water filled with tiny plastic bits that can be harmful