Hot Topics / Re: Plastics component affects intestine
« on: December 18, 2009, 02:35:28 am »I think this whole plastic-issue is vastly overblown. For one thing, you have to have these liquids stored in plastic for years before the chemicals start leaching into the liquids. Also, if one doesn't store the bottles in open sunlight, the process takes longer.
I've been drinking excellent alkaline mineral-water from natural springs enclosed in plastic and have never had an issue.
Sorry to disappoint you. Here's some science. Enjoy! http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2009/04/29/2555698.htm
Remember that water is a solvent! Water is probably the worst thing you could store in plastic other than acidic substances (such as perrier water, fruit juice, etc. < acidic). On the other hand, raw fat in PET (especially say butter that's JUST been place in a plastic tub then in the fridge 2 days before you eat it right after milking/butter-making) shouldn't be a problem. Whatever would possibly leach into that would be bound to and never absorbed by the body since the fat is raw. (If anything were to leach at all)