The World Institute of Kimchi announced on Wednesday that it had injected lab mice with Leuconostoc mesenteroides CBA3656, a type of lactic acid bacteria isolated from kimchi, and found that their detected nanoplastic levels were more than twice as high as those of mice not injected with CBA3656.

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[–] FTonsilStones@lemmy.ca 10 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (1 children)

The World Institute of Kimchi is an affiliate institution of Korea Food Research Institute, which is government-funded. (atleast per Wikipedia)

[–] yermaw@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 hours ago

I like the implication that this could just be the new Spinach