Tegan Taylor

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Health Report · Auckland lockdown, microplastics, mapping mortality, breast cancer drug · 1 Mar 2021 podcast

see if it's gonna be a problem from a health point of view because of um voice-verified

those those sorts of things are gonna behave differently in bodies, whether it's an animal's body or a human's body. voice-verified

That's right. voice-verified

So as um Amanda Dawson, who's the lead author, she's from the Australian Institute of Mean uh of Marine Sciences said, there's actually still a fair bit that we really don't know about microplastics in Australian diets. voice-verified

Yeah, there's a there's a they don't sort of put a quantity around it, but what they did do was identify the sources which are probably the primary sources and what they sa they said was Australians mostly eat fish fillets, there's probably not a lot of plastics in the meat, but there's a chance that they might be contaminated in the processing v um part of it. voice-verified

Actually most of the meat of the seafood that Australians eat is imported, about sixty six percent. voice-verified

And then uh in crustaceans, like say you're having a voice-verified

a prawn, you if you're peeling off that poo shoot on the outside, that's probably where the plastics are. voice-verified

But the main way that you'd be getting it if as an Australian based on how we eat, is probably in bivalves, so oysters, mussels and those sorts of shellfish. voice-verified

Yeah, there's always the undercurrent for these stories is always that it's like, you know, you're eating this much microplastic and it's just taken as red that it's bad for you. voice-verified

And the answer is we actually don't know if they are bad for us. voice-verified

Bigger parts of microplastic probably just pass through our bodies and out the other side. voice-verified

And so there have been some studies that have tried to look at this. voice-verified

Um there's there's theories, but there's not a lot of really good direct evidence. voice-verified

Because um what we can see in vitro, sort of in test tubes and whatnot, is that tiny, tiny microplastics, like the m the really small ones, two point five microns or less, can cause inflammation in cells. voice-verified

But what we don't know is whether those microplastics can actually get into those cells in our human body. voice-verified

And um th just but the fact that the evidence isn't there voice-verified

Doesn't mean that we shouldn't worry about it. voice-verified

It's that the evidence isn't there and we need to research it to know whether we should worry about it. voice-verified

So one of the s people I spoke to was Kevin Thomas. voice-verified

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