The bottle-fed infants swallow millions of micro-plastics in a day, says a research. The trinity college in Dublin has conducted study on the infants. The baby formula prepared on the polypropylene bottles exposes infants to micro-plastic particles. The reason behind is the high temperature required to sterilize the plastic bottles and then preparing milk. More than one million microplastics an infant is consuming everyday.
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The polypropylene one of the commonly used plastic has been used for food preparation and as a storage items such as lunch boxes, Kettles, etc.., 82% of the feeding bottle market is occupied by the poly-propylene. The sterilisation has to be taken place at a high-temperature. The high temp causes the botles to shed millions of microplastics and trillions of nanoplastics. When infants place the bottle in their mouth, they ended up swallowing the plastics.
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Here are few guidelines for usage of the bottles. Sterilise the bottle by boiling it in a non-plastic container, use room temperature sterilised water, wash the bottle atleast thrre times, prepare formula milk in a non-plastic containerusing taleast 70 degree water and transfer the prepared formula into a high-quality plastic infant feeding bottle. Don't reheat the prepared formula milk, don't shake the formula in the bottle vigorously, don't use ultrasonic cleaners on the baby bottles.
