Can you cut your microplastic exposure, and does it change anything?
Some steps demonstrably lower the particles and chemicals you take in. Whether lowering them improves health is a question no study has yet answered.
BPA, 'BPA-free' and the bisphenol question, without the noise
Europe cut its safe intake for BPA by orders of magnitude and banned it in food packaging. US regulators disagree, and the substitutes are less studied.
Phthalates: what's established and what's extrapolated
The chemistry and the exposure are solid. The headline death tolls are model estimates built on assumptions, and they carry uncertainty ranges to match.
Does heating food in plastic matter? What the release data show
Microwaving food in some plastic containers releases far more particles than cold storage. What that means for health is still an open question of dose.
Seven days of low-plastic eating cut three chemical markers in urine
The PERTH trial is a 60-person pilot, and its outcome was urinary chemistry rather than health. Within those limits it answered a question people keep asking.