{"id":231707,"date":"2026-02-20T05:35:58","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T11:35:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/health-impacts-of-micro-and-nanoplastic-ingestion"},"modified":"2026-02-20T05:35:58","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T11:35:58","slug":"health-impacts-of-micro-and-nanoplastic-ingestion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/health-impacts-of-micro-and-nanoplastic-ingestion","title":{"rendered":"Health impacts of micro- and nanoplastic ingestion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/health-impacts-of-micro-and-nanoplastic-ingestion2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The carcinogenic consequences of the plastic pollution crisis.<\/p>\n<p>This Viewpoint by Jason A. Somarelli, Jason W. Arnold &amp; Andrew B. West discusses the health impacts of micro-and nanoplastic ingestion: microplastics.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Address correspondence to: Jason A. Somarelli, 3,044 Genome <i>Science<\/i>s Research Building I, 905 S. Lasalle St., Duke University Medical School, Durham, North Carolina 27,710, USA. Email: <a href=\"mailto:jason.somarelli@duke.edu.\">jason.somarelli@duke.edu.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The carcinogenic consequences of the plastic pollution crisis. This Viewpoint by Jason A. Somarelli, Jason W. Arnold &amp; Andrew B. West discusses the health impacts of micro-and nanoplastic ingestion: microplastics. Address correspondence to: Jason A. Somarelli, 3,044 Genome Sciences Research Building I, 905 S. Lasalle St., Duke University Medical School, Durham, North Carolina 27,710, USA. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-231707","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\/231707","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231707\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}