SummaryFifteen brands of table salt were tested and among them they found the grains of seasoning microsized particles of the common water bottle plastic polyethylene terephthalate, as well as polyethylene, cellophane, and a wide variety of other plastics. The table salt that were tested came from China. Researches believe that the source is the plastic pollution in the table salt is from the ocean and and also when manufacturing when packing table salt could also be another source for plastic to get in the table salt. Now China faces a problem plastic being in their table salt. "According to Shi’s team, if a person were consuming Chinese sea salt at the maximal salt dose recommended by the World Health Organization, then that person would ingest about 1,000 plastic microparticles annually. This is still less than the estimated 11,000 particles of microplastic ingested annually in Europe by consumers of shellfish". The amount of plastic in table salt is a threat that will cause human health problems or already is.
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Its very shocking that table salt in China contains a huge amount of plastic. The amount of plastic found in table salt is crazy. But its truth. We need to start to take care of environment especially the sea because that's a major source for our seafood. It makes me so angry because there is evidence that plastic is bad for us our health . We should be smart and banned plastic products. We should start looking at environmentally friendly products. We have the technology to make our ocean cleaners. Reduce our plastic use it. China is not the only one countries suffering from this issue. It's just ridiculous that we are not stopping the production of plastic just because its cheap. Well plastic is not cheap its costing our environment.
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