Bottled Water Can Contain Hundreds of Thousands of Previously Uncounted Tiny Plastic Bits, Study Finds

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9. I don't cook in plastics. Even before "microplastics" became a concern.

I used to take “Jr High”/“Middle School” students out into the woods and teach them camping skills. Their counselors had learned somewhere that you could cook in "#10 cans.” I’d put an empty can on the fire, so the plastic lining would burn, and ask, "Do you really want that in your food?”

Virtually every sort of plastic container (including “BPA-Free”) leaches chemicals with estrogenic activity:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3222987/

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Results: Almost all commercially available plastic products we sampled—independent of the type of resin, product, or retail source—leached chemicals having reliably detectable EA, including those advertised as BPA free. In some cases, BPA-free products released chemicals having more EA than did BPA-containing products.
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Even so-called "food-safe" plastic, intended for use in a microwave oven “outgasses.”
https://doi.org/10.1080/19440049.2012.751631

Migration of antimony from PET trays into food simulant and food: determination of Arrhenius parameters and comparison of predicted and measured migration data
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