South Africa:Microbead Bans - Throwing Out Science With the Seawater

[Daily Maverick] Canada and the UK are the latest countries to enact bans on microbeads - small exfoliating beads found in personal care products. But what little scientific basis there was for doing so has just been exposed as a fraud, resulting in the retraction of the only paper that claims microbeads are a significant threat to marine life.
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - Category: African Health Source Type: news