🥛 Microplastics in Baby Feeding Bottles

New research from Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam shows that how milk is stored and fed matters as much as what’s inside it.
• Breast milk itself is safe — but when it’s pumped and stored in plastic bottles, microplastics leach into it.
• Infant formula, often mixed and fed in plastic bottles, showed the highest concentrations of microplastics.
• Glass bottles carried far less risk, highlighting that it’s the plastic contact that contaminates the milk.

Babies are being exposed to plastic particles from the very first meals of their lives — not because of what they drink, but because of what it’s stored in.

The takeaway: if you want to minimize exposure, choose glass over plastic.


https://vu.nl/en/about-vu/faculties/faculty-of-science/more-about/research-into-microplastics-in-breast-milk-formula-and-baby-bottles