We could be swallowing more than 100 tiny plastic particles with every main meal, a Heriot-Watt study has revealed.
The plastic, which can come from soft furnishings and synthetic fabrics, gets into household dust which falls on plates and is consumed.
The university academics made the discovery after putting Petri dishes containing sticky dust traps on the table next to dinner plates in three homes at meal times.
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