The chewing gum releases hundreds of tiny plastic pieces right into the mouth of the people, the researchers said on Tuesday, also warning the pollution created by Sweet based on rubber. A small study comes when the researchers are increasingly finding small plastic fragments called microplasty around the world, from the tops of the mountains to the bottom of the ocean – and even in the air we breathe.
They also found microplasty impregnated with human bodies – including in our lungs, blood and brain – causing fears of the potential effect that can have on health. “I don’t want people’s anxiety,” AFP said, “Sanji Mohanta, a leading researcher who has not yet been considered.
There is no evidence that directly shows that microplastics are harmful to human health, Mohanth from California University, Los -Andgeles (UCLA) said. Plotte study instead sought to illustrate another little studied way when these preferably invisible plastic pieces enter our bodies.
Lisa Low, the UCLA graduate student, chewed on seven pieces of each of the 10 brands in front of the researchers, and then conducted a chemical analysis on their saliva. They found that grams (0.04 ounces) gum released an average of 100 microplastic fragments, although some shed more than 600. The average gum is about 1.5 grams.
Researchers who chewed about 180 pieces a year can take approximately 30,000 microplasties. This is rejected compared to many other ways that people use microplast, Mohanth emphasized. For example, last year, other researchers estimate that a liter (34 ounces of liquid) of water in a plastic bottle kept an average of 240,000 microplasty.
“Tires, plastic bags and bottles”
The most common chewing gums sold in supermarkets is called a synthetic gum containing oil -based polymers to get this chewing effect, the researchers said. However, the packaging does not list any plastic in the ingredients, just using the words “based on the gum”. “Nobody will tell you the ingredients,” Mohanta said.
Researchers tested five synthetic gum brands and five natural gums that use plant polymers such as SAP Tree. “It was strange that we found that the microplast was rich in both,” Low AFP said. David Jones, a researcher at Portsmut University in the UK, who did not participate in the study, stated that it was surprised that the researchers found that a certain plastic was not in GUM, believing that they could go from another source in the laboratory.
But the general conclusions were “not at all strange,” he said AFP. People tend to “produce a little” when they say that the building blocks of chewing gums were like what is found “in car tires, plastic bags and bottles,” Jones said. Oliver Jones, Professor of Chemistry at the Australian University of Rmit, said that if a relatively small number of microplasty swallowed, they are most likely going through you without impact. “
“I don’t think you still need to stop chewing the gum.” Lowe also warned of plastic pollution from chewing gum – especially when people “pushed it to the sidewalk”. The National Association of Confectionery, which provides chewing gum producers in the US, said the statement that the study’s authors acknowledged that “there was no reason for anxiety”.
“Gum safely enjoy, as it has been over 100 years,” the ingredients said were approved by the US Power Office and medicines. The study, which was presented in a reviewed magazine, was presented at a meeting of the American Chemical Society in San Diego.
