[thfuran]

>So you would have to drink 32.5 million 1-liter bottles of water to expect the same general order of magnitude of "active ingredient" effects on your body as one aspirin tablet.

Only if aspirin is what the bottle is leeching into the water.

[BytesAndGears]

Yeah agreed, worth noting that it only takes ~100-1000 nanograms of Botulinum toxin to kill you. So it’s kind of irrelevant to compare different substances toxicity based on quantity alone. The toxic levels of aspirin are totally irrelevant for a different substance

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Botulinum_toxin

[pdonis]

> it’s kind of irrelevant to compare different substances toxicity based on quantity alone

While this is true, it applies with even more force to the comparison with botulinum toxin than to the comparison with aspirin. Nanoplastics are less active than aspirin, not more (there's a reason why nobody takes nanoplastics to cure headaches), so if anything one would expect to require more nanoplastics than aspirin to have a significant effect--which means even much more more, so to speak, than botulinum toxin.