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.

Edit: Link to the paper

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[–] tino@lemmy.world 5 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

the main problem i see here is that the bacteria is in kimchi, and the nanoplastics are in my body. The solution would be to put kimchi in my body? no fucking way!

[–] davidgro@lemmy.world 5 points 15 hours ago

I agree, but there's hope: It says they injected the mice, which implies that a hypodermic needle could be an option.

I have no love of needles, but given the alternative...