Microplastics found in global bottled water!

[PaulusE]

https://orbmedia.org/stories/plus-plastic

 

"Some of the bottles we tested contained so many particles that we asked a former astrophysicist to use his experience counting stars in the heavens to help us tally these fluorescing constellations.

 

Sizes ranged from the width of a human hair down to the size of a red blood cell. Some bottles had thousands. A few effectively had no plastic at all.

 

One bottle had a concentration of more than 10,000 particles per liter.

 

Bottled water evokes safety and convenience in a world full of real and perceived threats to personal and public health."

[HLover]

No problem, the plastic has no effect on the human body, thank you for your exceptional quality control standards.

Now excuse me, I'm late for my chemotherapy treatment.

[VocalNeal]

Serves people right. They should be drinking filtered beer from glass bottles or aluminum cans 

[Maestro]

That Bottled Water You're Drinking May Contain Tiny Particles of Plastic

 

DAVID MEYER

March 15th, 2018

 

A lot of bottled water contains tiny bits of plastic, known as microplastics, according to research conducted by a non-profit journalism organization called Orb Media.

 

The research, conducted at the State University of New York, took in more than 250 bottles from 11 different brands, sold across nine countries. “A few” of the bottles effectively contained no plastic, while others had thousands. None of the brands came out entirely unscathed.

 

Two of the bottled water manufacturers cited in the study—Nestle and Gerolsteiner—disputed Orb Media’s results, saying they found much lower quantities of microplastics in their water. A bottle of Nestle Pure Life water showed the highest levels in Orb Media’s study, with 10,390 particles per liter.

 

Read more: http://fortune.com/2018/03/15/bottled-water-microplastics-orb-media-nestle/

[Maestro]

I wonder if any bottled water sold in Thailand has ever been tested for plastic particles.

[Maestro]

For the scientifically inclined, here is the link to the full text of the lab report on which the news articles are based:

https://orbmedia.org/sites/default/files/FinalBottledWaterReport.pdf 

[MuntyC0re]

yeah yeah we all die

[Kinnock]

Traces of plastic found in plastic bottles - shock, outrage, scandal.

 

So a group of journalists pay a lab to use a non-approved method to test for plastic in plastic bottles, then the report is not sent for peer review before it's sent out as a press release in a format that reporters can easily cut and paste.

 

Hmmmmm