Hello, Doctor. About a week ago, I noticed when I d finished a store-bought salad in a plastic container that part of a tine from the plastic fork was missing. At one point, I thought I might have bitten into something, but the salad had green pepper and other crunchy things in it, so I didn t think twice about it. I have no pain, but since that salad I ve been feeling bloated nearly all the time. Do you think there could be some connection between the bloating and the bit of plastic fork tine (which was slightly less than 1 cm long....I m asking because colon cancer runs in my family, and I m overdue for a colonoscopy (though I ve never had stomach problems before)......