You may not know for 20 years if your plastic water bottle is poisoning you.Right now the FDA says only that it will keep monitoring data to see if the agency needs to take regulatory action. It could be 20 or 30 years before they truly know the effects on the human body from the toxins leached from plastic water bottles.For now no serious action is being taken regarding the very serious health hazards presented by plastic water bottles, plastic food storage containers, and more.
Here’s why your plastic water bottle may be unsafe: Most bottled water comes in polyethylene terephthalate bottles, indicated by a number 1, PET, or PETE on the bottle’s bottom. While some scientists believe that these bottles are generally safe at room temperature, when they are stored at warm temperatures, the story changes.When the bottles are warmed, they begin to quickly leach chemicals into the water. It doesn’t matter if the bottles are still sealed, of it it’s the bottle you’re carrying with you and drinking from throughout the day. Scientists agree that the bottle left in the hot car all day is dangerous – but how warm is too warm? And how warm were those bottles during shipment? How warm were they when they sat in a warehouse prior to shipment? You have no way to know.According to Ken Smith, PhD and past chair of the American Chemical Society’s division of environmental chemistry, “Leaving bottled water out in the car changes the chemical equilibrium so that the materials from the plastic go into the water faster.”Note that he didn’t say heat causes chemicals to go into the water, but that it causes them to go into the water faster. That would indicate that even if your bottled water has been refrigerated from the day it was bottled, chemicals are leaching into it.
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