THE discovery that most bottled water is contaminated with tiny fragments of plastic stirred up mild panic last week. But do these microplastics actually pose a risk? According to a study commissioned by Orb Me
Bottled water products in the U.S. are regulated by the Food and Drug Administration. In general, the FDA does not comment on specific studies. A spokesperson explained that when studies come out, the FDA "evaluates them as part of the body of evidence to further our understanding about a ...
A 2021 review of studies discovered that when storing bottled water in PET bottles for three years at room temperature, the amount of the chemical in the water was only 1% of the tolerable daily intake1. Can reusing water bottles make you sick? Drinking from plastic bottles should not make ...
In the U.S., where the average consumer drinks some 40 gallons of bottled water a year, sales of bottled water have actually overtaken those of sodas. Reacting to this growing trend, the San Francisco airport, which plans to be zero-waste by 2021, put a ban on plastic water bottles in...
All of them said they would cut back on their bottled water use. 美联社采访了该研究的四位合著者。 他们所有人都表示将减少瓶装水的使用。 Columbia chemist Wei Min said he has reduced his bottled water use by half. Stapleton said she now depends more on filtered water at home in New ...
About 10 to 100 times more nanoplastics than microplastics were discovered in bottled water, the study found. 之前的研究关注的是稍大的微塑料,范围从人眼可见的 5 毫米到 1 微米。 研究发现,瓶装水中发现的纳米塑料比微塑料多约 10 至 100 倍。 Much of the plastic seems to be coming from the ...
That level of microplastics in bottled water was double the level found in tap water. The findings suggest if you drink one liter of bottled water per day you could be consuming tens of thousands of microplastic particles each year.It is apparent that the problem of microplastics is still a ...
Bottled water has become so prevalent in our society, a lot of us don’t give it a second thought. But it was not that long ago that bottled water seemed, well, irrational. I mean… it’s water. Why would we pay 10,000 times more per gallon for it to come in a plastic container...
Would you still be drinking it if you knew that more than 90 percent of all bottled water sold around the world contains microplastics(塑料颗粒)?That's the conclusion of a 39 (recent) released study, which analyzed 259bottles from 11 brands sold in nine countries, 40 (reveal) an average ...
Most bottled water comes from places with limited water supplies, like California. Nestle even created a water shortage in Pakistan. Plastic waste (including plastic bottles) washes into the ocean and kills 1.1 million marine creatures annually.Health...