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The blind group think and hand waving around this topic always astounds me. Plastics used in water bottles are not water soluable. Is there ANY hard evidence
by morpheos137 3y ago
The blind group think and hand waving around this topic always astounds me.
Plastics used in water bottles are not water soluable.
Is there ANY hard evidence of harm to human health from ingesting minute quantities plastic dust vs any other kinds of dust?
Most plastics are chemically and biologically inert. That is why they don't break down in nature.
Where is the evidence that they react in the body to cause harm?
A water bottle is not your vinyl shower curtain. It is made of PET or maybe PE. Neither are biologically active.
Polyamide ( nylon ) in water filters is non toxic. You could probably eat a teaspoon of fine nylon powder a day suspended in water for years with no health effects because it would just pass through the body without reacting, mainly excreted with feces. Your intestines are not going to absorb insoluble plastics into your blood. The quantities found in water bottles are far, far, less than a teaspoon.
Is there any study that purports to find a significant quantity of polyamide or PET or PE in blood???
It really seems there is a media generated mass hysteria around safe plastics. Not all plastics are the same. Plastics used for food or drink application are typically PROVEN safe from decades of study. What are we all worried about then?
- jmnicolas 3y agoAs long as you can't definitively prove it's harmless, I'd rather avoid the stuff if at all possible. For example there was a time when publicity recommending cigarettes to pregnant women was a thing.