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Using an advanced method, researchers at TU Graz and the Centre for Electron Microscopy have detected plastic in the roots of wheat plants. Whether the particles reach the ears of grain will be shown by further tests. Microplastics and nanoplastics in soils are a growing environmental problem. The extent to which agricultural crops absorb these particles and whether they end up in food has so far been difficult to prove.

A research team from the Medical University of Vienna, the University of Vienna and the Yale School of Public Health has analysed the way breastfeeding and commercial milk formula are presented in more than 2,500 articles in Austrian print and online media over a period of two decades (2002-2022).