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There May Be Plastic in Your Sea Salt

"Microplastics were absent in one brand while others contained between 1 to 10 MPs/Kg of salt. Out of the 72 extracted particles, 41.6% were plastic polymers, 23.6% were pigments, 5.50% were amorphous carbon, and 29.1% remained unidentified." - excerpt from abstract of study published at nature.com.

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