It started about 18 months ago. It was shocking then and is even more so now. Listeners, viewers, friends, colleagues and family started to contact me, all with roughly the same question, then and now ...

ABC health expert Dr Norman Swan has stripped his kitchen of plastic and non-stick cookware amid growing fears about the health impacts of microplastics. Microplastics are tiny particles smaller than ...

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