DATE: April 5, 2026 at 03:49PM
SOURCE: GOODNEWSNETWORK.ORG

TITLE: Scientists Discover Lab Gloves Are Skewing Microplastics Data – Perhaps By A Lot

URL: https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/scientists-discover-lab-gloves-are-skewing-microplastics-data/

A University of Michigan researcher stumbled upon a crucial caveat for every study of microplastics that has been scaring us for years now. Lab gloves may have skewed the data in the research. She discovered that residue from latex or nitrile gloves may be unintentionally contaminating lab equipment used to measure microplastics in the air […]

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Scientists Discover Lab Gloves Are Skewing Microplastics Data – Perhaps By A Lot

A University of Michigan researcher stumbled upon a crucial caveat for every study of microplastics—lab gloves may have skewed the data.

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