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Bursting your bubble: Chewing gum releases microplastics into your saliva, UCLA research shows
Many of us don’t think twice about casually popping a stick of gum in our mouth. But chew on this: When you do, you’re also chomping on, and possibly ingesting, hundreds, if not thousands, of microplastic particles,