Cats love to knock things off shelves, and dogs love to bark at the mailman (or anyone else at the door). Both cats and dogs ...

Chewing a single piece of gum can release hundreds to thousands of pieces of microplastic into the saliva in your mouth—likely to go on to be swallowed.. This is the warning of researchers from ...

Study Subject Chewed Each Piece of Gum for 4 or 20 Minutes. To find out more about microplastics and chewing gum, scientists analyzed 10 popular chewing gum brands, five natural and five synthetic.

Chewing gum can shed hundreds of microplastics into your mouth ... Published Mar 25, 2025 3:13 PM EDT. It doesn't seem to matter if you chew artificial or all-natural gum, either. Credit ...

A single individual chewed each piece of gum for four minutes, with saliva samples collected every 30 seconds and a final mouth rinse. In a separate experiment, samples were collected over 20 ...