WARNING! Do not re-use mineral Water Bottles!

[boliklik]

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hey guys... just wanted to pass this on...


Many are unaware of poisoning caused by re-using plastic bottles. Some of you may be in the habit of using and re-using your disposable mineral water bottles (e.g. Bisleri, Aquafina, Kinley, Evian, etc...), keeping them in your car or at work. Not a good idea.

In a nutshell, the plastic (called polyethylene terephthalate or PET) used in these bottles contains a potentially carcinogenic element (something called diethylhydroxylamine or DEHA).

The bottles are safe for one-time use only; if you must keep them longer, it should be or no more than a few days, week max, and keep them away from heat as well. Repeated washing and rinsing can cause the plastic to break down and the carcinogens cancer-causing chemical agents) can leak into the water that YOU are drinking.

Better to invest in water bottles that are really meant for multiple uses. This is not something we should be scrimping on. Those of you with family - do
please advise them, especially children.

[tolstoi]

^^geezz is this clinically proven??..im fond of storing water in a mineral bottle and put it in the ref...

[tolstoi]

just found out that its a HOAX

But I read that the student’s project found carcinogens?

The student’s thesis incorrectly identifies di(2-ethylhexyl) adipate (DEHA), a plastics additive, as a human carcinogen. DEHA is neither regulated nor classified as a human carcinogen by the U.S. Occupational Safety & Health Administration, the National Toxicology Program or the International Agency for Research on Cancer, the leading authorities on carcinogenic substances.

In 1991, on the basis of very limited data, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency classified DEHA as a "possible human carcinogen." However, in 1995, EPA again evaluated the science and concluded that "...overall, the evidence is too limited to establish that DEHA is likely to cause cancer."

Further, DEHA is not inherent in PET as a raw material, byproduct or decomposition product. DEHA is a common plasticizer that is used in innumerable plastic items, many of which are found in the laboratory. For this reason, the student’s detection of DEHA is likely to have been the result of inadvertent lab contamination. This is supported by the fact that DEHA was detected infrequently (approximately 6% of the samples) and randomly, meaning that the frequency of detection bore no relationship to the test conditions.

Moreover, DEHA has been cleared by FDA for food-contact applications and would not pose a health risk even if it were present.

Finally, in June 2003, the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Testing and Research conducted a scientific study of migration in new and reused plastic water bottles from three countries. The Swiss study did not find DEHA at concentrations significantly above the background levels detected in distilled water, indicating DEHA was unlikely to have migrated from the bottles. The study concluded that the levels of DEHA were distinctly below the World Health Organization guidelines for safe drinking water.

Is it true that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) only allows plastic beverage bottles, such as those made with polyethylene terephthalate (PET), for one-time use?

No, FDA allows PET to be used in food-contact applications, including food and beverage packaging, regardless of whether the packaging is intended for single or repeated use. PET beverage bottles sold in the United States are designed for single use for economic and cultural reasons, not because of any safety concerns with PET.

In fact, refillable bottles made with the same PET resin as single-use bottles are safely reused in a number of other countries. The only difference is that refillable bottles have thicker sidewalls to enable them to withstand the mechanical forces involved with industrial collection and commercial cleaning and refilling operations.

Can freezing a PET beverage bottle cause dioxins to leach into its contents?

This is the subject of another e-mail hoax. There simply is no scientific basis to support the claim that PET bottles will release dioxin when frozen. Dioxins are a family of chemical compounds that are produced by combustion at extremely high temperatures. They can only be formed at temperatures well above 700 degrees Fahrenheit; they cannot be formed at room temperature or in freezing temperatures. Moreover, there is no reasonable scientific basis for expecting dioxins to be present in plastic food or beverage containers in the first place.

http://www.plasticsinfo.org/beveragebottles/faq.html

[wikerfish]

OH NO!!! whom should i believe!! i'm confused and igo jud ko ani, mainly the things that contain our drinking water now is washed and used and washed and used mineral water plastic bottles!!! (mostly Nature's Spring).... i hope it's a hoax jud. :8O:

[batterfly]

more often than not, its a hoax...pwede ma store ang original contents for long periods of time...pero once na wash dili na...i can't see the logic didto. Kung carcinogenic na sya, it shouldn't be used at all.

[scooby-doo]

you don't have to worry so much about this. you'll get yourself stressed out. there are more important things that needs your attention.

[**julliene**]

hope this is not true gyud...dili kami gagamit ani but akong mga pag umangkon tawn na luoy sad kaayo mao tawn ni ilang gamit sa ilang containers...delikado d ay to ilang kinabuhi ani ron...tsk tsk tsk!!

[pitsay]

akong brother sad.. labaw na mag.gym siya kay recycled bottled water iya gamit... I dunno unsa'y tinuod!!! *paranoia*

[Uzumaki Naruto]

sus. kung ato nang time, wala ta mahimo.

[Almidala]

bitaw, true na or dili, mao ra ba na akong buhat sa haus og sa ofis... butangan nko tubig balik den butang sa ref...

then akong uyab, mao raba na iya sudlanan sa iyang drinking water para sa auto niya...