[professorTuring]

Not long ago I watched a tv show from Spain that wanted to make some awareness about this topic. They bought some fish and prawns and more seafood that should contain "lots of microplastics".

They took all of it to a laboratory and the laboratory found nothing at all. The presenter told the audience that it was surprising for him, and that they thought that the results were a letdown for the purpose of the documentary but that it was "good news" that we can still enjoy food without microplastics...

I would say that the results will vary vastly depending on the place you obtain the samples, but anyway, we should change our relationship with plastic...

[flak48]

Kudos to the show for still airing the episode anyway (whatever their reasons might have been)

[OnlineGladiator]

Plot twist: the show was paid for by Big Plastic.

[mekoka]

So we eat tons of the stuff every year. Now what? Try searching for "what happens to ingested microplastic". To kill the suspense, most everyone looking to scare you with huge numbers also seem to avoid answering that more interesting question. But from the small amount of information that I could gather, I suspect that the answer is too big of a let down (figuratively and literally) to make interesting news. Happy trails to all looking for answers.

[OnlineGladiator]

Everything I've heard is microplastics can cause infertility.

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2014/06/can-plastics-cause-i...

https://environmentjournal.online/articles/microplastic-poll...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/may/24/toxic-americ...

None of this is conclusive, but there's more and more evidence that microplastics might be causing serious reproductive issues in humans.

[Cougher]

The fact that we don't yet know the ramifications, if any, doesn't mean that it isn't a potential problem. This is true for the complex chemical soup that is our bloodstream these days, making any sort of inferences to specific isolates exceedingly difficult and even off the mark.