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India should consider ban on microbeads in personal care products, researchers say
Type of microplastics used in skin exfoliators and banned in UK and US found in 45% of Indian products studied
India’s personal care and beauty industry was valued at $28bn (£21bn) in 2023, making it the eighth largest market in the world for such products. Their small size can allow them to “act as vectors for other contaminants” like poisonous metals, which are then accumulated at higher levels of the food chain, according to Riya Alex, a phD candidate at Cochin University who led the research. Some microbeads are pigmented with potentially toxic chemicals, bright colours that tend to attract organisms that may feed on them out of curiosity, Alex added.
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