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South Korea releases results of microplastic contamination inspections of domestically distributed food products

 Last Update: 2022-04-16
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Food Partner Network News On March 11, the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety ( MFDS ) of South Korea announced that it has conducted an assessment and inspection of human exposure tomicroplastics* in food circulating in South Korea, and the results show that it is not a level of concern.

In addition, MFDS confirmed that washing seaweed (wakame, kelp) twice or more can remove a large part of microplastics
.

*Microplastics: Microdecomposed plastic marine debris, etc.
or artificially produced plastic particles smaller than 5mm (5000 ㎛
) .

Inspection objects: The microplastic pollution level and human exposure of 11 types of 102 types of food distributed in Korea, including seaweed, fish sauce, and foreign reported microplastic pollution, were examined from 2020 to 2021
.

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In addition, MFDS confirmed that washing seaweed (wakame, kelp) twice or more can remove a large part of microplastics
.

*Microplastics: Microdecomposed plastic marine debris, etc.
or artificially produced plastic particles smaller than 5mm (5000 ㎛
) .

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