Bottled water is marketed as clean and pure, but new research shows the water in a bottle comes with hundreds of little pieces of plastic.
>>>Why you need to read the label on your bottled water Channel 11 first got tipped off to this story by our sister station in Atlanta.
What that toxicologist could tell us about what they know, and don’t know, about the impact of plastic in bottled water on our health, Thursday on Channel 11 News at 5 p.m. Channel 11 sent a team up to SUNY Fredonia in New York, three hours north of Pittsburgh, to meet up with the team behind this discovery.
These were the same researchers who looked at plastic in tap water.
This time, researchers looked at water bottles from the most popular brands and found something in common; they all had microplastics in the water.
The research also found the plastic contamination was worse than the plastic found in tap water.
While there, we were surprised to discover just how much plastic was found in bottled water.
The researchers had discovered all the plastic, but did not know what health effect it would have on consumers.
Everyone Channel 11 talked to in Pittsburgh had a similar reaction to us about the research.
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