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The food strand, with receipts

1WISDOM · Field notes · sample

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This week's Vault entry: Plastic You Can't See — But You're Ingesting It. The deep file on microplastics. What the new science actually shows. Where the exposure is coming from in your specific day. What the dose-response problem means for risk assessment. And the products to replace this month.

A note from the editor

What didn't make this piece: two industry-chemist affidavits we couldn't verify in time. We won't publish what we can't independently confirm. They show up in the follow-up if they hold.

Signal boost

The Baffler's piece on the FDA's "Closer to Zero" initiative is worth your half hour. We disagree on the conclusion, but the documentary trail they walked is solid work.

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