A Square Meal – Foods of the ‘20s and ‘30s

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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