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“Many consumers already look for commercial products that do not contain Bisphenol A (BPA), an estrogenically active compound that some manufacturers use for creating plastics and which leaches out of products over time (estrogenically active compounds are suspected to lead to birth defects, cancers and other health problems). But BPA is only part of the [...]
leaching into your food……… The researchers bought more than 450 plastic items from stores including Walmart and Whole Foods. They chose products designed to come in contact with food — things like baby bottles, deli packaging and flexible bags, says George Bittner, one of the study’s authors and a professor of biology at the University [...]
Bisphenol A or BPA is it is known to its chums is used in polycarbonate plastics. These include the hard plastic which look like glass but doesnt break as dramatically, the white plastic liners found in many cans, microwave ovenware, eating utensils and bottles (including baby bottles). Plastic containing BPA are labeled with the number “7” identification code, BUT [...]
Whats in plastic might cost you your lady lumps. Not a nice subject I know but check out this breast cancer website – it might help you keep your bits.
#1 PETE plastic water bottles have been shown to leach antimony into water. A recent study conducted by University of Heidelberg researcher Bill Shotyk, and published in the January 2006 Journal of Environmental Monitoring, found antimony levels in PETE water bottles were higher than levels found where the water was sourced. According to Shotyk, consumers [...]
Can you burn plastic? Well it never burns easily – it melts and bubbles. It will burn eventually but you have to keep heating it – click here if you want to know why. But if you do try to set fire to plastic it gives off a terrible smell at least in my experiance [...]
When you eat or drink things stored in plastic, wear plastic, sit on plastic, taste it, smell it, and so on, plastic is incorporated into you. There is a bi-directional communication between plastic and things that contact it, meaning that plastic gets into the food, and food gets into the plastic, as well as you. [...]
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