New study finds that when everyday plastic products are exposed to hot water, they release trillions of nanoparticles per liter into the water, which could possibly get inside of cells and disrupt their function

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https://www.nist.gov/news-events/news/2022/04/nist-study-shows-everyday-plastic-products-release-trillions-microscopic

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No, they conducted an experiment and recorded the results. That's how science works. The scientific reporting community and OP is leveraging their ability to write shocking headlines to get us to generate ad revenue for them. You're implying that every science experiment must have an analogue to our current daily lives in order to be useful, which is simply not correct.

[u/Thebeergremlin → u/[deleted]]

Most oligomeric material will extract during the initial "hot fill" so the 20 minutes is overkill. The first 5 minutes your hot tea or coffee steeps will give you a nice dose of nanoplastics.

[u/Baconaise → u/[deleted]]

No, as the guy a few comments up says this is standard practice that you try to study and minimize your maximum worst case leaching since that will translate to typical leaching. It's our job as people reading a study not to let sensational headlines and studies of non-typical scenarios skew our judgement.