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Incredible: microplastics also in fruit and vegetables

Cold shower in an already compromised framework: contrary to popular belief, microplastics penetrate fruit and vegetables through the roots. Now they are practically everywhere.

Gianluca Riccio di Gianluca Riccio
June 28 2020
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This really did not take: according to two separate scientific studies, microplastics are also contaminating the fruit and vegetables we eat.

Microplastics in fruit and vegetables

The first study is Italian: according to data collected by Margherita Ferrante, University of Catania scientist, apples are the most contaminated fruit while carrots are the most affected vegetables.

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Here's how they get into everything we eat

A second peer-reviewed study published this week reveals instead that plastic is transported by water through the irrigation systems of food crops.

The study was conducted jointly by Dr. Lianzhen Li of the Yanthai Coastal Research Institute in China and Professor Willie Peijnenburg of the Leiden University in the Netherlands and will be published this week in the journal Nature Sustainability.

Professor Peijnenburg found that microplastics penetrate the roots of lettuce and wheat plants, and from there they are transported to mature plants.

For decades, scientists believed that plastic particles were too large to pass through the physical barriers of plant tissue.

Now this assumption is definitely being questioned. Root vegetables such as carrots, radishes and turnips, and leafy vegetables such as lettuce are most at risk of contamination by microplastics.

These new discoveries raise serious doubts about the safety of the food we eat.

Maria Westerbos, founder of the Plastic Soup Foundation, said: “We've known for years that they end up in shellfish and fish, but this is the first time we've known that microplastics also end up in vegetables. And if it gets into vegetables, it's also getting into all living things that eat vegetables, which means they're also in meat and milk. "

What we need to find out now is what they are doing to us. And this is a partially unexplored territory.

As we struggle, hopefully seriously, to eliminate them, we must urgently answer a very simple question: how much do microplastics make us sick and how?

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Gianluca Riccio, born in 1975, is the creative director of an advertising agency, copywriter and journalist. He is affiliated with Italian Institute for the Future, World Future Society and H +, Network of Italian Transhumanists. Since 2006 he directs Futuroprossimo.it, the Italian resource of Futurology.

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