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it is difficult to ascertain the source of microplastics found in natural chewing gums,” they added. Also, some of the polymers — such as polyterephthalates, often found in water bottles ...

Researchers found that a litre of water in a plastic bottle contained an average of 240,000 microplastics. The gum shed almost all of the microplastics during the first eight minutes of chewing ...

Chewing a single piece of gum can release hundreds ... when they were combined with a final mouth rinse with clean water. The experiment was repeated seven times for each brand.