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By The Columbian
Published: October 19, 2026, 9:28am
Updated: October 19, 2026, 3:30pm
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U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin speaks during a roundtable with U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on efforts to combat forever chemicals, at EPA headquarters on May 18, 2026, in Washington, D.C. (Heather Diehl/Getty Images/TNS)
LOS ANGELES — Scientists have found microplastics in virtually every part of the human body. Yet many questions remain about what exactly these infinitesimal flecks of synthetic polymers do to human health, and how they might cause disease.
A new paper looking at the chemical reactions between water and disintegrating plastic offers a potential hypothesis for how microplastics might make us sick.
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