According to the abstract of a study published December 9, 2020 in Sciences Advances magazine, researchers with the Germany University of Bayreuth: “… Microplastic particles ubiquitously found in the environment are ingested by a huge variety of organisms. Subsequently, microplastic particles can translocate from the gastrointestinal tract into the tissues likely by cellular internalization … We show that environmentally exposed microplastic particles were internalized significantly more often than pristine microplastic particles into macrophages. We identified biomolecules forming an eco-corona on the surface of microplastic particles, suggesting that environmental exposure promotes the cellular internalization of microplastics. Our findings further indicate that cellular internalization is a key route by which microplastic particles translocate into tissues …” – The web link to the news release is included in the post on the home page of Plastic Food Packaging Waste News at https://pfpw.news/2020/12/12/microplastics-translocation-from-the-gastrointestinal-tract-into-tissues-studied/ #PlasticWaste #SingleUsePlastic #MicroPlastics
Animal Digestible Food Packaging Initiative
Our reason-for-being/goal/purpose/objective/intent is to convince/inspire/persuade/encourage the food processing industry to establish and fund a public private partnership for the discovery of new food packaging materials that would be digestible by animals (farm animals as well as ubiquitous microbes).
