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PlasticList – Plastic Levels in Foods

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450 points homebrewer | 1 comments | 24 Jun 25 14:18 UTC | HN request time: 0.205s | source
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xnx ◴[24 Jun 25 15:37 UTC] No.44367367[source]▶
Weird to see how much attention plastics in food are getting despite no(?) evidence of harm vs. something like consuming too much sugar or alcohol, and BPA/BPS in receipt paper (https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/24/well/health-effects-paper...).

It's very hard to maintain a mental ranked list of health things to be worried about when hypothetical concerns get more attention/coverage the confirmed ones.

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1. benrutter ◴[25 Jun 25 05:17 UTC] No.44373829[source]▶
Quote from Harvard medicine magazine:

> findings in models show inflammation, cell death, lung and liver effects, changes in the gut microbiome, and altered lipid and hormone metabolism.

Microplastics aren't anywhere near as well understood as sugar or alcohol. There's a growing body of research associating them with negative health outcones, inluding observing them causing harm on a cell level (i.e. not just correlational studies).

It's definitely not true that there isn't evidence of harm. There's a lot. It's more that this is a new field of research and not yet fully understood.

https://magazine.hms.harvard.edu/articles/microplastics-ever...