90% of salts have microplastics?

(Danielle) #1

[https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/2018/10/microplastics-found-90-percent-table-salt-sea-salt/?user.testname=none](http://Microplastics found in 90 percent of table salt)

(Laurie) #2

If you buy rock salt you might avoid this problem. Rock salt includes Himalayan salt and, in Canada, Sifto brand table salt, straight from the salt mine underneath Lake Huron.

(Brian) #3

I’ll stick with Real Salt. It’s not from any ocean that’s seen a bunch of plastic dumped into it.

(Candy Lind) #5

They indicated the three sources that didn’t have any…
“The three brands that did not contain microplastics are from Taiwan (refined sea salt), China (refined rock salt), and France (unrefined sea salt produced by solar evaporation)”
… which means it might be mighty hard to avoid them in the Americas.

Of course, we have no idea how the samples were chosen or if they are an accurate representation of the world’s salt supply. Before I go looking for a new salt supply, I would 1) be looking for the additional studies and 2) trying to find out if this is another “Keyes-esque” study that reported only sources that favored the hoped for outcome. It may be cynical, but with Greenpeace involved, I would tend towards believing the latter.

I’m not saying plastic isn’t a problem - I contribute yearly to an organization dedicated to cleaning up our oceans. I’m saying there are ecology evangelists out there who have muddied the water with their heavily biased propaganda so that it’s hard to know what’s truth & what’s politics.