Researchers tested ten different chewing gum brands, and found no difference between synthetic and natural gum.

And if you redecorate your home and sand down the old paintwork, the plastic binders in the paint can release microplastics ...

Researchers found that chomping on a single stick of chewing gum can release up to thousands of shards of microplastics.

People who chew around 180 pieces of gum a year could be ingesting roughly 30,000 microplastics, the researchers said.

Chewing gum can release thousands of microplastics into saliva. Scientists say more research is needed but suggest chewing ...

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

A new study found that chewing gum releases hundreds to thousands of microplastics into saliva. Both synthetic and natural ...

Plastic is everywhere. And many products we use in everyday life can expose people to tiny, micrometer-wide plastic particles ...

Microplastics—tiny plastic bits that can take hundreds of years to break down—are everywhere, from tap water to tea bags, ...

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

The researchers' analysis revealed that the lion's share of the microplastics were released from the gum in the first two ...

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