Following the intake of microplastics into the human body, their fate and effects are still controversial and not well known. [...] Not enough information is available to fully understand the implications of microplastics for human health;
That's probably what the Romans were saying back then. Or when uranium plates were used. Or when PFOAs were/are used in good contact.
They also knew about some of the risks of lead. Vitruvius (during Augustus) wrote that water through clay pipes is better and purer, and others comment about how the care you need to take when preparing food in leaden vessels.
e.g. https://penelope.uchicago.edu/~grout/encyclopaedia_romana/wi...
You can use that argument to support the implication that everything might be dangerous.
Asbestos exposure often takes up to 50 years to have a detectable impact, then kills in short order.
Lead poisoning can take an incredibly long time to identify unless you find the source of exposure up front.
Plastics haven’t even existed for a century, and have been ubiquitous only in the last few decades.
I mean, there’s a reason why you don’t eat plastic packaging and I’m sure it could be made to taste nice...