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Not all tea bags shed them. We asked experts if it’s risky to use the ones that do. Credit...Joyce Lee for The New York Times Supported by By Caroline Hopkins Legaspi Q: I’ve heard there are ...

Nick Blackmer is a librarian, fact-checker, and researcher with more than 20 years of experience in consumer-facing health and wellness content. Tea bags could be releasing billions of ...

Now, new research has detected microplastics in yet another common spot: tea bags. The study, which was published in the journal Chemosphere in December, is raising a lot of questions about the ...

Big tea bag brands tend to have loyal followings, but our taste test reveals it's worth trying supermarket own-brand options as you might be pleasantly surprised by what you discover. We asked 79 tea ...

Want sugar or milk in your tea? How about plastic? Researchers have found that tea bags are releasing millions of nanoplastics and microplastics into tea. Monika Skolimowska/dpa ...

So, when news recently came out that tea bags “release micro- and nanoplastic particles” by the millions, it didn’t faze my parents; as the tea snobs they are, they ditched single-use tea ...

Do you know that you may be slow-poisoning yourself by letting billions of microplastics enter your system daily?

People who drink loose leaf tea might be on to something: scientists in Spain have found evidence of plastic pollution getting into human cells after being leached from tea bags. Published in the ...