“While pouring the popular artificial sweeter sucralose into their morning coffees, University of North Carolina Wilmington Marine and Atmospheric Chemistry Research Laboratory (MACRL) researchers began to ponder, ‘If only 10 percent of this is going to stay in our bodies, what happens to the other 90 percent?’ This question led to the first scientific confirmation that sucralose is lingering in the Gulf Stream, the conveyor belt of water transport that circulates in the Atlantic Ocean from the coasts of North America to Europe, Africa and beyond.”
