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Chewing gum could release hundreds to thousands of microplastic particles into your saliva, a new UCLA study finds.

The rate at which chewing gum releases microplastics in saliva is quite astonishing. The test suggests that within eight ...

Paris, France—Chewing gum releases hundreds of tiny plastic pieces straight into people's mouths, researchers said on Tuesday ...

Learn more about the tiny particles that can come off of your gum - what is essentially a soft piece of plastic - as you chew ...

A new study showed that chewing gum releases microplastics, which can then be swallowed and absorbed by the body.

“Gum is safe to enjoy as it has been for more than 100 years,” the National Confectioners Association said via email. The ...

“Our initial hypothesis was that the synthetic gums would have a lot more microplastics because the base is a type of plastic ...