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1. 700 industrial chemicals are regularly found in the human body

2. according to several recent studies carried out in the United States, the EU and Canada and
mentioned in the commission's report. 90,762 deaths are thought to be attributable to levels
of DEHP (a phthalate) found in the body, i.e., around 5.2% of all deaths in 2013
3. more than 10,000 synthetic chemicals are an integral part of plastics

4. plastic is a complex chemical mixture of interwoven polymers
5. micro and nano plastics can cross cell barriers and cause damage
6. models of the impact of plastic predict massive ecological effects in 50 to 100 years
if no corrective action is taken (Everaert et al., 2020)
7. microplastics have been found in over 1,200 marine species