Nov 9, 2020
Polypropylene is among the most commonly used plastics. 82% of baby feeding bottles worldwide are made with it. Scientists now found that such bottles shed millions of microplastics and trillions of nanoplastics per liter when heated to the recommended temperature for sterilization and during formula preparation. Meaning bottle-fed babies are...
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