Level of microplastics in seafood ‘overstated’, study suggests

News13 Oct 2025by Vince McDonagh

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Seafood turns out not to be an especially high risk source of microplastics

Researchers at Heriot-Watt University and elsewhere have found that seafood is not the main source of microplastics in the human diet.

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