2020-10-06
Need for assessing the inhalation of micro(nano)plastic debris shed from masks respirators and home made face coverings during the COVID-19 pandemic
"By putting several top-selling medical face masks and N95 respirators under microscopes, however, we saw abundant loosely attached debris on their inner facings, some showing the morphology of fibers and others as particles, in the micron and sub-micron ranges (Fig. 1 )."
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7537728/
PLASTIC PARTICLES BEING INHALED BY MASK USERS
Need for assessing the inhalation of micro(nano)plastic debris shed from masks respirators and home made face coverings during the COVID-19 pandemic
"By putting several top-selling medical face masks and N95 respirators under microscopes, however, we saw abundant loosely attached debris on their inner facings, some showing the morphology of fibers and others as particles, in the micron and sub-micron ranges (Fig. 1 )."
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7537728/