{"id":199897,"date":"2024-11-21T01:34:38","date_gmt":"2024-11-21T07:34:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/new-bioplastic-doesnt-create-cancer-causing-microplastics"},"modified":"2024-11-21T01:34:38","modified_gmt":"2024-11-21T07:34:38","slug":"new-bioplastic-doesnt-create-cancer-causing-microplastics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/new-bioplastic-doesnt-create-cancer-causing-microplastics","title":{"rendered":"New bioplastic doesn\u2019t create cancer-causing microplastics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-bioplastic-doesnt-create-cancer-causing-microplastics2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Some researchers and public health experts have also expressed concerns that microplastic exposure can lead to babies being born underweight.<\/p>\n<p>Recent studies found that the average liter of store-bought bottled water contains more than 240,000 nanoplastics while the <a target=\"_self\" class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sciencetech\/article-12940075\/microplastics-meat-plant-based-alternatives.html\">majority of meat and plant-based alternatives contain tiny plastics<\/a> linked to cancer.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists have cautioned that it will take time to transfer to creating the new material because existing manufacturing equipment was only built for traditional plastic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some researchers and public health experts have also expressed concerns that microplastic exposure can lead to babies being born underweight. Recent studies found that the average liter of store-bought bottled water contains more than 240,000 nanoplastics while the majority of meat and plant-based alternatives contain tiny plastics linked to cancer. Scientists have cautioned that it [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199897\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}