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Microplastics are a known threat to overall health — and eating and drinking from plastic containers, like water bottles , could be a great offender, researchers suggest.

A new study published in the Journal of Hazardous Materials analyzed 141 existing scientific papers on microplastics and nanoplastics from single-use plastic water bottles to gauge how much plastic people may be ingesting.

Researchers at Concordia University in Montreal, Canada, discovered that the average person consumes 39,000 to 52,000 microplastic particles per year, according to a university press release.

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Individuals who drink bottled water regularly ingest up to 90,000 m

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