Microwaved plastic containers release microplastics into food

Re:Microwaved plastic containers release microplastics into ... by reaperducer on Friday June 30, 2023 @01:26PM (#36538841)

In Europe, Pyrex still uses borosilicate glass because it's better and because Europeans are more discerning consumers than Americans

Wikipedia disagrees with you:

"Since the closure of the soda–lime plant in England in 2007, European Pyrex has been made solely from borosilicate."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyrex

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Re:Microwaved plastic containers release microplastics into ... by mcpackieh on Saturday July 01, 2023 @11:19AM (#36551057)

That doesn't seem to contradict me; maybe they closed the soda-lime glass pyrex plant because those product models weren't selling as well?

Europe makes huge quantities of soda lime glass for a myriad of other applications, soda lime glass simply isn't hard to get in Europe. Wine bottles to windows, all that stuff is soda lime glass; borosilicate glass is a specialized glass that isn't used for most things besides cookware, labware, and sometimes lenses.

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