More than 250,000 microplastics (MPs) were detected in the saliva of a person after one hour of chewing a single piece of gum ...

Not to burst your perfectly blown bubble, but it turns out that chewing gum may be flooding your mouth with microplastics. As detailed in a pilot study which is awaiting peer-review, a team of ...

Chewing gum has been added to the growing list of things that lead us to ingest hundreds and thousands of microplastics. But is it really surprising considering gum is pretty much made of plastic?

“Our initial hypothesis was that the synthetic gums would have a lot more microplastics because the base is a type of plastic ...

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

W e all love popping a piece of chewing gum after a meal or during a long drive. It’s refreshing, keeps our breath minty, and can even help us focus. But recently, some studies have raised ...

More than 250,000 microplastics (MPs) were detected in the saliva of a person after one hour of chewing a single piece of gum, a new study has revealed. The research findings, led by Queen’s ...

The research findings, led by Queen’s University Belfast and published in the Journal of Hazardous Materials, demonstrated how potentially harmful materials can enter the body from chewing gum.