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My sense is you're likely correct but do you have a source? I can't find confirmation and Keurig itself claims: > Keurig® pods are BPA-free and constructed usi
by gnulinux 3y ago
My sense is you're likely correct but do you have a source? I can't find confirmation and Keurig itself claims:
> Keurig® pods are BPA-free and constructed using only FDA approved food grade materials. In addition, the temperature of the water dispensed in Keurig® brewers is well below the melting and softening points of the pod materials. Therefore, no plastic leaches from the pod into your beverage.
It might be marketing-speak.
- tristor 3y agoI don't have a source, because I'm not even sure if a study has ever been done. But my basic common sense tells me that putting hot (to boiling) water through plastic intended to be cheap enough it is disposable is likely going to leach some sort of plastics into the resultant beverage. BPA is not the only thing that can leach out of plastic.
- donavanm 3y agoMy partner is a biologist, finishing up a bio/chem phd specifically on detecting nano/microplastics in situ and their genomic effects. From my exposure to her work everything there is marketing speak. BPA is just one plasticizer that got too much bad press. There will be BPS, BPF, and/or a host of other plasticizers in those pods. None of them are innocuous. Passing acidic 90C water sounds like a pretty good extraction system for all sorts of compounds.