Humans so regularly consume toxic chemicals that few people rarely notice.

On Tuesday, the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences at the University of New Mexico published a study showing how much plastic we are consuming. It examined 62 different placentas and was shocked to discover that all of them, without fail, contained various microplastics.

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