A cutting board is an important household item that allows you to avoid damaging the countertop when cutting vegetables or fruits.
It is difficult to find a housewife who does not have such a convenient and compact thing in the kitchen.
But, as the American Chemical Society has found, cutting boards are a source of microscopic particles that end up in food.
Cutting boards can produce between 14 and 71 million microparticles per year.
The number may vary depending on the method of cutting the food or the material of the board.
According to experts, the largest number of microparticles were released in cases of using wooden boards. There were 4-22 times more of them, if compared with cases of using plastic boards.
The particles do not have a significant effect on cell viability, but they pollute the air.
The corresponding findings were published in the journal Environmental Science & Technology.
