Rhonda Patrick· PhD
Sea salt around the world is contaminated by plastic. Microplastics found in sea salt from the US, Europe, & China.
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Sea salt around the world is contaminated by plastic. Microplastics found in sea salt from the US, Europe, & China.
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sea salt generally has the highest levels of microplastic contamination due to the ocean pollution one study found that sea salts contained anywhere from 550 to 681 microplastic particles per kilogram making them some of the most contaminated sources of Salt Lake salts come next followed by by rock salts which have the least amount of microplastic contamination