Every human who drinks water from a tap or bottle is exposed to tiny pieces of plastic, but no one knows yet what effect this has on our health.
But experts don’t yet know what effect this has on our health and say there is not enough evidence to blame the plastic bottles themselves for the particles.
The tests, on more than 250 bottles from 11 different brands found an average of 325 particles per bottle.
The bottled water had around twice the plastic particles of tap water tested in other studies.
“What worries me is that most people who are drinking bottled water are doing so because they believe it is healthier than tap water,” said Professor Mason in a recorded interview.
“Some particles might lodge in the intestinal wall,” according to Orb Media.
“These chemicals are very persistent and can linger for a long time in the environment.” As far as the Orb study was concerned, Muncke said it was “well conducted but the result does not provide scientific evidence that the source of the microplastic is the packaging.
Micro-plastic is everywhere.” Muncke believes that the particles probably got into the bottled water at various stages of processing, including while being bottled at source, in factories and through packaging.
Plastic is everywhere.
“For WHO to make an informed risk assessment, we would need to establish that microplastics occur in water at concentrations that would be harmful to human health.