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I want to address one other thing, because there is a lot of misinformation around it at the moment—plastics. Noble Lords may have seen a report questioning the validity of a widely cited report about the fact that you may have a teaspoon’s worth of plastic in your brain. I am going to quote a letter from the Guardian here because it is important to put this on the record; it is a letter from Professor Philip J Landrigan, the director of the Global Observatory on Planetary Health, established under the sponsorship of the Lancet to get the best practice standards globally for examining microplastics. In the Guardian, the professor says that well-validated techniques show that there are multiple observations, including down microscopes, of plastics in human tissues, which also identified the type of plastic—where the microplastics came from. He said: