Plastics in your table salt
Health & Science - By
Gatonye Gathura | February 1st 2021 at 06:00:00 GMT +0300
Some of the table salt sold in Kenya is contaminated with tiny plastic particles, which may be a health risk to consumers.
Salt bought from open markets and supermarkets in eight African countries, including Kenya, was tested, and found to contain plastic particles.
“It is obvious that microplastics contamination in table salts should be of a major public health concern,” said Fadare Oluniyi of the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, and chief investigator in the study.
The researchers collected samples of different brands of commonly consumed commercial table salts from Kenya, Nigeria, Cameroon, Ghana, Malawi, Zimbabwe, South Africa, and Uganda. All the samples, the report in an ahead of the print issue of Marine Pollution Bulletin states, were contaminated with plastic particles, some not visible to the naked eye.
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