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Research Documents Health Implications of Microplastics

Chicago Tribune (June 21) – “We can measure the impact of plastics chemicals on attention and learning in babies as young as 4 months old,” said Susan Schantz, an emerita professor of neuroscience at the University of Illinois. who leads the study. “What we have been finding is the harm from plastics-related exposures starts very early and continues to affect children into adolescence.”