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Green Impact & Plastic Soup: “Microplastics in blood, brain and placenta: new report warns of urgent gaps in EU law ahead of EU Ministers’ meeting”
Microplastics in blood, brain and placenta: new report warns of urgent gaps in EU law ahead of EU Ministers’ meeting
Civil society groups call on the EU to close critical regulatory gaps and protect public health
Brussels, 22 July 2026 — A new report, based on peer reviewed evidence and published by Plastic Soup Foundation, in collaboration with Green Impact, found current EU legislation fails to prevent microplastics’ spread in human blood, breast milk, lungs, brain tissue, placenta, and children’s urine, and warns that microplastics and nanoplastics constitute an escalating public health crisis.
Read more below:
📄 Read the report here.
📄 Read the report in Italian here (translated with AI).
📰 Read the Briefing here.
📰 Read the Briefing in Italian (translated with AI) here.