United Kingdom · Question · Written question
UIN 29324
Microplastics: Pollution Control
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5 February 2025
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19 February 2025 · Answer
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19 February 2025
Summary
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to reduce levels of microplastics in the environment, in the context of the potential impact of microplastics on levels of prevalence of heart attac
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5 February 2025
Written question
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to reduce levels of microplastics in the environment, in the context of the potential impact of microplastics on levels of prevalence of heart attac
Source: Commons
19 February 2025
Answer
Under the 2022/23 UK REACH Work Programme, Defra initiated a research proposal to investigate the risks of intentionally added microplastics. It did not look specifically into any links between microplastics and the prevalence of heart attacks and strokes...
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- Official source: https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2025-02-05/29324
- Open data entity: https://questions-statements-api.parliament.uk/api/writtenquestions/questions/1762635
- uk · wq-1762635 · source updated 19 February 2025