The environments are
adversely polluted nowadays, with waters filled chemicals and other toxic substances.
One of those toxic substances is microbeads- the tiny plastic particles
commonly found in face scrubs, body wash, and other cosmetics. The
toxins attached to microbeads can contaminate fish directly. A team from RMIT
University in Australia finds that fish can absorb up to 12.5 percent of the
pollution from microbeads.
Any who eats such contaminated fish, has
eaten toxic substance. The RMIT team from University in Australia said that
their next step is to determine the implications of our findings on microbeads
for public health, working out the significance of this exposure pathway
and precisely measuring how much pollution could be entering this human food
chain.”
Microbeads are in a huge
amount of different cosmetic products that can be washed down our sinks and
into the ocean, where fish can’t help but to consume them, because they’re so
small.
These microbeads then end up sitting in the
stomach of fish, and, just like any plastic, they attract and concentrate toxic
chemicals – including a class of pollutants called polybrominated diphenyl
ethers (PBDEs), which are known to cause neurological problems, decreased
immune function, and even fertility problems.
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