{"id":6790,"date":"2019-06-05T08:00:44","date_gmt":"2019-06-05T12:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=6790"},"modified":"2019-06-11T19:45:26","modified_gmt":"2019-06-11T23:45:26","slug":"humans-unknowingly-consume-a-lot-of-microplastics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/humans-unknowingly-consume-a-lot-of-microplastics\/","title":{"rendered":"Humans unknowingly consume a lot of microplastics <img src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/canada_flag_icon_small.gif\">"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pubs.acs.org\/doi\/abs\/10.1021\/acs.est.9b01517\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Environmental Science &amp; Technology<\/em><\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Published June 5, 2019 | 08:00 EDT<\/strong> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurekalert.org\/emb_releases\/2019-06\/acs-emc053119.php\">News release<\/a>\u00a0from American Chemical Society)<br \/>\nHumans unknowingly consume tens of thousands of tiny plastic particles per year \u2013 with unknown potential health impacts. Researchers estimate that a person\u2019s average microplastic consumption is between 70,000 and 121,000 particles per year, with rates rising to 100,000 for those who drink only bottled water.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Lead author: <\/strong>Kieran Cox, University of Victoria &#8211;\u00a0<a title=\" Link to email address \">kcox@uvic.ca<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Environmental Science &amp; Technology Published June 5, 2019 | 08:00 EDT (News release\u00a0from American Chemical Society) Humans unknowingly consume tens of thousands of tiny plastic particles per year \u2013 with unknown potential health impacts. Researchers estimate that a person\u2019s average microplastic consumption is between 70,000 and 121,000 particles per year, with rates rising to 100,000 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1327,3259,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-scientifique","category-heads-up","category-paper-of-interest"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-1Lw","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6790"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6790\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6794,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6790\/revisions\/6794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}