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Not sure what kind of agenda you are implying... Prematurely stop plastic use in food production/packaging before we are completely sure it affects our health n

Not sure what kind of agenda you are implying... Prematurely stop plastic use in food production/packaging before we are completely sure it affects our health negatively? All I know is that this is new, untested input into a 4-billion-year-old tangle of spaghetti code. If you are confident being the guinea pig, since "human health effects of phthalates are not yet fully known but are being studied," be my guest. * Di(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate is listed as "reasonably anticipated to be a human carcinogen" * Current levels of seven phthalates posed "minimal" concern for causing reproductive effects. * High levels of one phthalate, di-n-butyl phthalate, may adversely affect human reproduction or development. Source: https://toxtown.nlm.nih.gov/text_version/chemicals.php?id=24 https://toxtown.nlm.nih.gov/text_version/chemicals.php?id=24 Source source: https://www.google.com/search?q=phthalate+site:nih.gov https://www.google.com/search?q=phthalate+site:nih.gov

AstralStorm 9y ago
Note that high levels of the specific phthalate is of relevance to workers in plastic factories. There's really no way to get them that high up otherwise. For an adult of course. It is different for a newborn fed and hydrated by pvc tube. I agree about potential carcinogen. How about actual carcinogen evidence though? Should be easy to get, scrutinize plastic workers.
- forgotmypw 9y ago
  You seem to imply that this research has not already been carried out, or is non-obvious... >The reinforced plastic plant workers showed, in terms of semen quality, better values in the percentages of live sperm and immotile sperm, whereas they had a reduced percentage of normally shaped sperm. Source: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2980348 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2980348 Source source: https://www.google.com/search?q=site:nih.gov+plastic+workers https://www.google.com/search?q=site:nih.gov+plastic+workers

AstralStorm 9y ago

Note that high levels of the specific phthalate is of relevance to workers in plastic factories. There's really no way to get them that high up otherwise. For an adult of course. It is different for a newborn fed and hydrated by pvc tube. I agree about potential carcinogen. How about actual carcinogen evidence though? Should be easy to get, scrutinize plastic workers.

forgotmypw 9y ago
You seem to imply that this research has not already been carried out, or is non-obvious... >The reinforced plastic plant workers showed, in terms of semen quality, better values in the percentages of live sperm and immotile sperm, whereas they had a reduced percentage of normally shaped sperm. Source: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2980348 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2980348 Source source: https://www.google.com/search?q=site:nih.gov+plastic+workers https://www.google.com/search?q=site:nih.gov+plastic+workers