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Re:A Square Meal – Foods of the ‘20s and ‘30s by kurthr on Thursday April 07, 2022 @02:55AM (#30941453)
It's similar in the US. I'd note that even the crystal clear (highly recyclable) plastic you see does not contain the phthalates you're looking for. There was a fad in the early 00s for using polycarbonate water bottles that probably contained BPA, but those were then (rightfully) banned. You can't even use BPA or ortho-phthalates in children's toys since they very likely put them in their tiny mouths.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1367856/

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Re:A Square Meal – Foods of the ‘20s and ‘30s by R0b0t1 on Thursday April 07, 2022 @10:17AM (#30944739)
Plastics still need a plasticizer, so those BPA-free plastics simply use a chemical like BPA but not studied.
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Re:A Square Meal – Foods of the ‘20s and ‘30s by kurthr on Thursday April 07, 2022 @12:35PM (#30946818)
I don't know about PolyCarobonate, but for LDPE and HDPE (and PET) that sounds incorrect. Certainly, chemists are worried about much smaller amounts of contamination (ppb) than humans and they would definitely know (and measure) how much plasticizer was leaching from their bottles.

It appears to be almost none:

https://www.thermofisher.com/us/en/home/life-science/lab-pla...

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Re:A Square Meal – Foods of the ‘20s and ‘30s by R0b0t1 on Thursday April 07, 2022 @02:00PM (#30948102)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bisphenol_A#BPA_substitutes

I know there's wide variety in plastics. Be careful about cherry picking studies that show no harm, you can do it with lead if you really want. The situation isn't as dire, but I think the actual impact on animals is more up in the air than a brief survey of the literature suggests.

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Re:A Square Meal – Foods of the ‘20s and ‘30s by kurthr on Thursday April 07, 2022 @08:38PM (#30952032)
Perhaps, but none of the plastics we're discussing (other than PC) have BPA in them at detectable amounts.
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