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New research in the journal Nature Foods suggests that bottle-fed babies may be swallowing tiny plastic particles along with their milk, with the highest levels found in the United States, Australia and Europe.
The BBC's Cat Wiener reports.
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About 80 percent of standard feeding bottles used worldwide contain a plastic called polypropylene.
When heated to the high temperatures required for sterilization, these shed millions of microplastics and trillions of even smaller nanoplastics.
The scientists estimate that on average infants are exposed to more than one and a half million micro plastic particles per day during the first 12 months of life when fed using polypropylene bottles.
They say not enough is known about the impact on infant health and they've produced sterilization guidelines to reduce microplastic exposure.
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