You reach for the salt shaker at dinner without thinking twice. It's something so ordinary, so essential to every meal. What if I told you that the tiny grains you're sprinkling on your food might be ...

The products contained roughly 233 to 266 plastic particles per pound of salt.

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Researchers identified mostly tiny plastic fragments, which are thought to come from degraded packaging, fishing gear, and other marine debris.

A Bangladesh study published in Food Chemistry Advances shows wide variation in iodine levels among packaged salt brands sold locally. As table salt loses iodine content during storage, extra amounts ...