Scientists explore whether plastic particles could be linked to significant rises in liver disease

Liver disease is rising globally and is now responsible for 1 in 25 deaths worldwide. What this article shows is that we now have a growing body of evidence that plastics can accumulate in human tissues, and have been implicated in a range of medical conditions. From my perspective, having spent over two decades developing therapeutics for liver disease, the liver acts as the body's gatekeeper – processing and detoxifying what we are exposed to. In an increasingly plastic-laden world, where...