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Scientists in Latin America are sounding the alarm over the presence of microplastics in freshwater sources — and the understudied human health impacts of the plastic pollution. A new report by SciDev ...

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A more practical approach is to reduce the most significant sources of microplastic intake,” the researchers wrote this week in the Genomic Press. This advice may be tough to swallow.