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Apr 13th, 2010 04:56 PM | ||
TheCoolinator |
At least we can agree on something. "Swing low....sweet chariot...coming for to carry me home!" |
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Apr 13th, 2010 04:50 PM | ||
The Leader | Sometimes I kind of feel like dying anyway. | |
Apr 13th, 2010 04:35 PM | ||
Colonel Flagg |
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Pedantically speaking of course. Specifically, yes, there are some chemicals in some plastics (car parts, guns, garage doors, etc.) that are not meant for human consumption, yet can potentially find their way into the environment, and thence into the human body. This is a matter of risk assessment (one of the cornerstones, incidentally, of Dr. Ames' research) and is extremely difficult to judge. For example, everyone KNOWS that plastics don't degrade in the environment; they last for hundreds of thousands of years, right? Therefore, these plastics represent a low risk. Well, Dr. Saido proved quite the opposite - the ocean's chemistry (saline, minerals and sunlight) provide a reaction vessel where a polycarbonate bottle CAN degrade, and in a few months or years, and not hundreds. Whoops. This raises the risk factor quite substantially. Unfortunately for us, we've been dumping plastics onto the ground for many many decades (damned litterers!), plastics that can eventually find their way to large bodies of water - rivers, lakes estuaries and of course, the ocean. There are many hundreds of thousands of tons of plastic floating about the Earth's oceans, each degrading and leaching their component parts back into the environment. BPA is the tip of the proverbial iceberg - what about plastics that have been treated with antistatic agents that have been shown to be carcinogenic? Scary? Yes, but what to do about it? It's in the environment, and if our previous discussion on climate change serves as anything, it shows that the environment is really big. This stuff isn't going anywhere anytime soon. And there's no getting away from it completely. Using glass containers and purified water only serves to make you feel better; it does nothing substantive to limit exposure. |
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Apr 13th, 2010 02:37 PM | ||
TheCoolinator |
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At least I can still wear my Nylon Jogging suit with pride. |
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Apr 13th, 2010 02:29 PM | ||
The Leader | But aren't there other chemicals in plastics that have never been studied for carcinogenic effects? | |
Apr 13th, 2010 02:26 PM | ||
Colonel Flagg |
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As a general rule, stay away from polycarbonate food containers, which uses BPA as a platicizer/processing aid. Other plastics (e.g. Nylon, polyethylene) do not contain this additive. Or use containers that are certified BPA-free. |
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Apr 13th, 2010 11:54 AM | ||
TheCoolinator |
Probably, It's gotta affect the thyroid too. I know a lot of people with new borns at my job have been switching to glass baby bottles because of this. Scary stuff. |
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Apr 13th, 2010 11:42 AM | ||
The Leader | Lowers sperm count too, don't it? | |
Apr 13th, 2010 09:36 AM | ||
TheCoolinator |
BPA hormone disruptor now contaminates Earth's oceans, scientists warn Quote:
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