Amelia Harry
Advanced Accredited Practising Dietitian (AdvAPD), Nutritionist, and Clinical Researcher at the University of Western Australia with a PhD in sustainable diets; founder of Eat Sustainably and lead investigator of the PERTH Trial studying plastic exposure and human health.
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Jun 21, 2026
Amelia HarryGUEST
In our cohort study, which was stage one, we first set out to look at where are people exposed to plastic? The tools to measure how people are exposed.
Amelia HarryGUEST
If I asked you, where did you touch plastic yesterday? You probably wouldn't be able to remember everything.
Amelia HarryGUEST
So we did a big review of how do people measure exposure to plastic? We have been focusing predominantly on these plastic chemicals, so the bisphenols and the phthalates.
Amelia HarryGUEST
there are lots of chemicals added while plastic is being manufactured to make it sort of malleable and clear and light and all those sorts of things.
Amelia HarryGUEST
If you think about a plastic water bottle, about 70% of the weight of that plastic bottle is these chemicals and they leach from water bottles or plastic into food or whatever it may be.
12 MINS LATER
Brad DalrympleHOST
into our essential food chain, into us, knowing that there's a strong link or at least links between their ingestion and human health negative consequences.