Plastic particles found in bottled water

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So do these particles collect in our kidneys or are they passed in our stools ?
 
I wonder what kind of health consequences it has. I also wonder how many trace particles are found from other materials that contact our foods such as cast iron pans, steel pans, non stick pans, aluminum sheets, stoneware, ceramic cups, styrofoam containers etc. Personally I completely avoid non stick pans other than the original, cast iron. The idea of a magical DuPont chemical coating on cookware worries me.
 
So do these particles collect in our kidneys or are they passed in our stools ?
They pro’ly go straight thru the digestive tract. Since they are solid, they wouldn’t make it into the blood stream, and therefore could not collect in the kidneys.

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They could also dissolve in stomach acid but it wouldn’t be plastic at that point. And whatever is formed after being dissolved (if that happens), it/they may or may not get into the bloodstream. It or they may or may not be harmless.
Most of us have sipped from such bottles and most of us are still pretty much alive. If it’s not harmful, and there’s a spectrum for that, I think most people would prefer not ingesting any of it. Then you have the environmental problems related to plastic particles everywhere.
 
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