Study says microplastics detected in almost every seafood sample

A latest study has found widespread microplastic contamination in sampled seafood that grows evidence of the dangerous substances’ presence in the food and an increasing threat to human health.

According to British newspaper, the new study found microplastics in 99% per cent or 180 out of 182 samples of seafood purchased at the store or from a fishing boat in Oregon. Researchers find the highest levels of the harmful substance in shrimp.

Thet also determines the most common type of microplastic and they were fibres from clothing or textiles, representing a whopping 80 per cent  of the substance they detected.

A Portland State University microplastics researcher and study co-author, Elise Granek, said that the findings underline a serious issue with plastic use at its current scale.

Elise Granek sais that as long as we’re using plastic as a major component in our daily lives and we’re using it in a widespread fashion, then we’re going to see them in our food, too.

The experts have detected microplastics in water samples around the world and food is believed to be a main exposure pathway. Latest studies have detected them in all meat and produce products that were tested in the research.

Microplastic pollution can contain any number of 16,000 plastic chemicals.