Tell The FDA To Protect Us From Microplastics

Tiny plastic particles are everywhere: In our water, air, soil, food, and even our bodies. Scientists have also found them in the human heart, brain, testes, and placentas.

One study even found that most people's brains contain a plastic spoon's worth of microplastics.

Despite growing concern over the harm to our environment and our health, there are no laws regulating microplastics in our food or water.

Tell the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to hold plastic producers accountable and protect us from microplastics.

Send a letter now.

Microplastics hurt our environment and our health. Send a letter telling the FDA to keep these tiny plastic particles out of our food and water — and ultimately our bodies.

Toddler eating with a pink plastic spoon.

Tiny particles of plastic surround us. They are in our water, air, soil, and food; in lakes, rivers, and oceans; even at the top of Mount Everest. These microplastics are also in our bodies — scientists are finding them everywhere from the human heart and brain to testes and placentas.

In fact, a recent study even found that most people's brains contain a plastic spoon's worth of microplastics.

Despite growing evidence that microplastics could be harming our environment and our health (studies show links to increased risk of heart attack, stroke, and cancer), there are no laws regulating microplastics in our food or water. Meanwhile, the plastic industry is on track to triple plastic production over the next four decades.

The burden to limit our exposure to microplastics shouldn’t fall to the American public. Tell the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to hold plastic producers accountable and to protect us from microplastics in everyday items.

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Subject Urgent need to protect us from microplastics in food and water

Dear Dr. Makary,

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I am writing to urge the FDA to take immediate action to protect the public from microplastics in our food and water.

These tiny plastic particles are now found virtually everywhere — in our air, water, soil, and food, and inside the human body. Scientists have detected them in the heart, brain, testes, and placentas, with one recent study reporting that a plastic spoon’s worth of microplastics can be found in the human brain alone.

Despite growing evidence that microplastics could be harming both environmental and human health, there are currently no regulations governing their presence in our food or water. At the same time, the plastic industry is rapidly expanding production, with projections showing it could triple over the next 40 years.

The responsibility to avoid microplastics should not rest on individuals like me. The FDA must hold plastic producers accountable and establish strong safeguards to stop our food and water from being contaminated by microplastics.

I urge you to act now to protect our health, our environment, and future generations.

Thank you.

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