Wearing face masks as a potential source for inhalation and oral uptake of inanimate toxins - A scoping review

CONCLUSION: Undoubtedly, mask mandates during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic have been generating an additional source of potentially harmful exposition to toxins with health threatening and carcinogenic properties at population level with almost zero distance to the airways.PMID:38537476 | DOI:10.1016/j.ecoenv.2023.115858

Source: Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety - March 27, 2024 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Kai Kisielinski Stefan Hockertz Oliver Hirsch Stephan Korupp Bernd Klosterhalfen Andreas Schnepf Gerald Dyker Source Type: research