Oslo-SANA
A Norwegian study revealed that small fragments of plastic materials reached fetuses in the womb after crossing the placenta, indicating that it is impossible to prevent children from eating microplastic particles as well as smaller nanoplastics even while they are in their mother's stomachs.
The British newspaper The Independent reported that the study, conducted by researchers from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, revealed that children ingest microplastics from feeding bottles and children's toys, as well as from textiles and food packaging.
The study warned that children are exposed to very different amounts of plastic according to the place in which they live, especially in poor neighborhoods that contain other harmful chemicals in addition to plastic, such as phthalates and metals added for coloring, stabilization, or as a biological pesticide.
Professor Kam Sripada, who supervised the study, stated that today's children absorb microplastics into their bodies from the age of the fetus, and children do not have a fully developed immune system and they are at a very important stage of brain development, which makes them particularly vulnerable to the extent that they can be transmitted deep into the lungs. .
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