The peer-reviewed study, published Monday in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, is the first to evaluate bottled water for the presence of “nanoplastics” — plastic particles under 1 micrometer in length, or one-seventieth the width of a human hair. The findings show that bottled water could contain up to 100 times more plastic particles than previously estimated, as earlier studies only accounted for microplastics — pieces between 1 and 5,000 micrometers.
Nanoplastics pose a greater threat to human health than microplastics because they’re small enough to penetrate human cells, enter the bloodstream and impact organs. Nanoplastics can also pass through the placenta to the bodies of unborn babies. Scientists have long suspected their presence in bottled water, but lacked the technology to identify individual nanoparticles.
They found 110,000 to 370,000 tiny plastic particles in each liter, 90% of them nanoplastics.
“This study provides a powerful tool to address the challenges in analyzing nanoplastics, which holds the promise to bridge the current knowledge gap on plastic pollution at the nano level,” says Naixin Qian, the study’s lead author and a graduate student of Columbia University in chemistry.
“Previously this was just a dark area, uncharted. Toxicity studies were just guessing what’s in there,” adds Beizhan Yan, the study’s co-author and an environmental chemist at Columbia University. “This opens a window where we can look into a world that was not exposed to us before.
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/environment/2024/01/09/sustainability/bottled-water-plastic-particles/
mga6f5910a1dc3a said – “This is too broad an allegation! What kind of bottled water?”
A broad allegation for an obtuse intellect, apparently.
What kind of bottled water? Plastic bottled water.
Voila! Quandry resolved, with hardly any mental effort. Need we say more?
Betty Mac, use a glass bottle or jar. As for mga6f5910a1dc3a – the clown is only a troll and is totally witless into the bargain
https://anamihalceamdphd.substack.com/p/study-shows-a-quarter-million-nanoparticle
Wake up people. You are years behind.
Joe Bogan said – “Personally I have always avoided nitrates &/or nitrites…”
You’ll be pleased to know there’s no nitrates OR nitrites in creepy Bill’s gourmet tumor sausages.
The simple cure for plastic nanoparticles, along with all sorts of other permanent blockages, contaminants and incurable invaders such as cancer, is the same: death which is due at 3 score years + 10.
Personally I have always avoided nitrates &/or nitrites which are in the processed meat so not much salami unfortunately because it goes well with cream cheese tomato and black pepper on a baguette.
Folks, if it’s coming from the plastic bottles and containers that it’s sold in, then bottled water isn’t the problem, the issue is much much wider than that.
Consider HOW MANY food and beverage products are sold in plastic bottles – fruit juice, soft drink, sauces, pickles, just about ANYTHING having or immersed in a liquid or semi-liquid.
Time to return to old-fashioned glass jars and bottles, perhaps, with the benefit of eminent reusability as well as being genuinely recyclable.
Dont drink bottled water at all, never did never will. I use carbon filteded water in a jug in fridge I won’t drink straight tap water tastes like pool water. (Latrobe Valley water is crap.)
I assumed the article was about plastics particles from the bottle, not the sourced water. This needs clarification.
The nanoplastics have always been there in all plastic bottles containing food items, it did not matter before, why should it matter now?
I have a large ceramic water jar.. Southern Cross Pottery. They are expensive but my daughter picked one up on Gumtree for $60… You can get a fluoride free UK water cartridge filter for it from Southern Cross also that lasts for a year. Or maybe the cartridge filter will fit in a cheaper pottery one from Bunnings or elsewhere.
betty mac.. Get yourself a stainless steel water bottle and use that when out and about.
My question is:- Does the bottle itself shed the nano particle or are they put there on purpose?
I only drink our home filtered water but always carry it in a bought plastic bottle. Is there a safer way to carry water?
mga6f5910a1dc3a & Stephen…
It seems the water corporations (Bechtel, Vivendi, et al) have been poised for consumer blow-back on a product every bit as dangerous as the jab; and here they are with transparent non-sequiturs hurled at us in the hope we will not think.
Cold reality to anybody who can both read and think… The study was an announcment of a new technology that enables us to identify and measure nano-particles in water, rather than the much larger and less dangerous micro plastics we currently consume. Nano plactics will cause cancers; and in the jabbed, incurably so.
This is massive news, which the water corporations know full well will result in the destruction of the vast empire of water hijack they have engineered ever since they captured the mountain water supply of the people of Bolivia, some twenty years ago. The people rose up and expelled Bechtel but many were shot.
In Queensland, Peter Beattie opend the door for indescribably evil Bechtel to exploit Queenslanders and SE residents will recall the crazy games played over Wivenhoe flood mitigation dam, reclassifying it as primary city water resevoir. Two inquiries failed to expose the truth. This was the main cause of the 2011(?) flood.
When the new Peoples Court tries and executes the covid jab killers, those who poisoned our water will be joining them on the gallows.
A bit more clarity needed.
It is the dissolving plastic bottle storing the water. As distinct from the micro plastics in the ocean which we absorb via other channels .
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It’s about the plastic bottles contaminating the water, not the source of the water. Your apology accepted.
This is too broad an allegation! What kind of bottled water? Bisarli’s bottled Himalayan Spring Water? Poland Spring bottled water that gushes up from the rocky highlands of the State of Maine? And do they refer to distilled water or regular. This is a shoddy bit of information and does not tell a story in spite of the emotionally-charged highlines. This is not good journalism.