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Janssen says that other common household items like plastic baby bottles and water filter pitchers contain bisphenol A, a chemical that mimics estrogen and has been linked in animals to infertility, enlarged prostates, abnormal chromosomes, obesity and insulin resistance, a precursor to diabetes.
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The fossil is placed in a plastic container for scanning, which helps filter out many of the X-rays to obtain clearer images.
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Mr. Savoni and others devised a way to push the water through the filter, a block of carbon encased in plastic, more swiftly.
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Each disc is covered in a transparent plastic coating (either blue, green, yellow or red) which lets daylight filter through.
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The filter feeder fish at the bottom of the food chain then ingest these nano-particles of plastic.
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