Jammu, Oct. 15 -- Share Tweet Share Anuj Kumar Verma Recently, a news as a headline, visible in few national dailies about researchers at MIT World Peace University, Pune, having detected microplastics in freshwater fish commonly consumed in the city. The plastic pollution is entering the human food chain through ordinary diets. The ongoing study by PhD scholar Simran Singh, supervised by Dr Soma Mishra, found fibres, fragments and pellets in fish samples and estimated that a person eating 250 grams of freshwater fish twice a week for 50 years could ingest between 93,600 and 124,800 microplastic particles. Such research work and it's findings are directly relevant to Jammu and Kashmir, where a number of studies on presence of plastic micr...