A paper recently published in the international academic journal Advanced Research Journal mentioned that Professor Xia Yankai's team from Nanjing Medical University and Professor Luo Yongming's team from Nanjing Institute of Soil Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, discovered

Plastics with dimensions less than five millimeters in the marine environment are defined as microplastics , which may be "invisible killers" of human health. Microplastics of different plastic types can contain 4% plastic additives on average, among which plastic additives such as phthalate , bisphenol A and some flame retardants are endocrine disruptor and carcinogens. Microplastics can enter the human body through two main ways - through the nasal cavity, enter the respiratory system , and through the oral cavity, enter the digestive system. Microplastics that follow food into the digestive tract may be transferred to other tissues and organs and become the pathway for the delivery of toxic chemical .

A paper recently published in the international academic journal Advanced Research Journal mentioned that Nanjing Medical University Professor Xia Yankai's team and Nanjing Institute of Soil Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences Professor Luo Yongming's team discovered a certain number and different types of microplastics and dye particles in human thrombosis samples for the first time.

html On the 129th, the corresponding author of the paper Xia Yankai said in an interview with reporters: "We believe that environmental factors, especially microplastics and dye particles, may have a potential relationship with the formation of thrombus."

In recent years, studies have been constantly discovering the existence of microplastics in the human body. In 2021, the research team of Nanjing University published a related study in "Environmental Science and Technology", and found that participants who often drink bottled water, eat takeaway food, and work with dust exposure have more microplastics in their feces, and the increase in the content of microplastics in their bodies may also aggravate intestinal inflammation. In 2022, a research team led by the Free University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands published a paper confirming that microplastics were found in human blood for the first time. microplastics are no longer as simple as "eat and pull out" in the human body. They may flow through the body with blood, affecting various organs.