The new study has scientists concerned that microplastics may be contributing to reproductive health issues.
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"What they do in the body, we don't know," says Campen, a professor at the UNM College of Pharmacy and one of the authors of the study,"Obviously, little tiny particles can disrupt the way cells behave."— what's in PVC piping — emerged as another prominent culprit and was the second most common in the dog testicles. Vinyl chloride isWhat's more, Yu and his team found a correlation between lower sperm count in the dog testicles and the presence of PVC .
Campen says there are still many unknowns, like what specific concentration would pose a threat to health, or how that might vary depending on the kind of microplastic or where they accumulate in the body. "It's probably one more piece of the puzzle of things that are contributing to declines in male fertility over the years as these environmental exposures keep accumulating," she says,"We don't know the clinical ramifications of that yet.""Having something unnatural like that in the testes is not particularly good news for good reproductive health," says Lea.
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