A person happily gnawing away on a large piece of gum could unleash more than 3,000 microplastic particles, according to the ...

Microplastics are building up in human brains, blood, reproductive organs, and more. A new study suggests you ingest more plastic when you chew gum.

Chewing gum releases hundreds of tiny plastic pieces straight into people's mouths, researchers said on Tuesday, also warning of the pollution created by the rubber-based sweet.

Researchers from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) recently discovered that chewing gum releases microplastics into saliva, potentially leading to ingestion. The study, presented at the ...

Surprisingly, microplastics were found in both the ... And we don’t know if chewing gum releases nanoplastics at all. The trouble is that nanoplastics are so tiny that they require specialised ...

Chewing gum releases hundreds of tiny plastic pieces ... have increasingly been discovering small shards of plastic called microplastics throughout the world, from the tops of mountains to the ...

Gum chewing independently arose across different cultures and regions at different times, says Jennifer Mathews, an ...

Not to burst your perfectly blown bubble, but it turns out that chewing gum may be flooding your mouth with microplastics ... one stick of the rubbery candy releases up to thousands of ...

New research by Queen’s University Belfast has found that chewing gum can release over a quarter of a million microplastics and detectable ... leading marketing data and analytics company, today ...

The study found that chewing gum could release a surprisingly high amount of microplastics. On average, 100 microplastic ...

SAN DIEGO (FOX 5/KUSI) — A recent study found that chewing gum can release up to thousands of microplastics per piece and potentially be ingested, according to researchers. Lisa Lowe and Jamie ...