You Can Be Irritated By What You Eat?

Microplastics are now found virtually everywhere on the planet. These tiny plastic chips flow through ecosystems and can finish up in our foods. It well-established that, microplastics can be linked to intestinal inflammation and other digestive disorders in laboratory animals. There is now a study showing that people with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) have 50% more microplastics in their faeces, than counterparts without this unpleasant digestive disorder (https://www.theguardian.com/society/2021/dec/22/microplastics-may-be-linked-to-inflammatory-bowel-disease-study-finds). Strikingly, the faecal microplastic count also appears to be linked to IBD severity. The study effectively confirms that discarded plastics are damaging human health. Perhaps we need to have microplastics per gramme printed on all food labelling?