Some premium tea bags might be leaving billions of microscopic plastic particles in

your cup, new research suggests.

Canadian researchers found that some plastic tea bags shed high levels of
microplastics into water.
Microplastics have widely been found in the environment, in tap and bottled waters,
and in some foods.
The World Health Organization (WHO) says such particles in drinking water do not
appear to pose a risk.
But the WHO said the findings were based on "limited information" and it called for
greater research on the issue.
The researchers, from McGill University in Montreal, Canada, also called for more
investigation into the health effects of microplastics, defined as small (less than 5mm
in length) pieces of any kind of plastic debris.
For the study, they bought four different commercial teas packaged in plastic
teabags.
Most teabags are made from paper, with a small amount of plastic used to seal them
shut. But some premium brands have switched to using greater amounts of plastic
mesh for their product instead