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This is why I went stainless. Look out, many times aluminum bottles are lined with a BPA coating, too.
by mdellabitta 12y ago
This is why I went stainless.
Look out, many times aluminum bottles are lined with a BPA coating, too.
- cpncrunch 12y agoYes, it looks like steel is the only safe alternative. Even completely bisphenol free plastics seem to be just as bad: http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2014/03/tritan-certichem-eastman-bpa-free-plastic-safe?page=1 http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2014/03/tritan-certic...
- stock_toaster 12y agoor glass?
- freiheit 12y agoTitanium is probably safer, but a lot more expensive.
- jseifer 12y agoStainless can leach too. Magnetic stainless steel is fine, though.
- cbd1984 12y ago> Stainless can leach too. Leach what, though? If it leaches iron, it might be more of a benefit than a problem, or at least neutral. (You can overdose on iron, but it's uncommon.)
- ars 12y agoManganese.
- pocketstar 12y agoI spent the last 30 minutes consulting the literature, I can't find any studies that indicating stainless steel leaches manganese. I realize it was mentioned in that atlantic article but they didn't cite any sources. Do you have a source indicating SS leaches Mn?
- ars 12y ago> Do you have a source indicating SS leaches Mn? I don't. Although maybe acidic food? And like I said in another comment, I'm not worried about it. But some people are.
- ars 12y agoStainless steel has manganese in it, which is a problem according to this (rather poor admittedly) article: http://www.theatlantic.com/features/archive/2014/03/the-toxins-that-threaten-our-brains/284466/ http://www.theatlantic.com/features/archive/2014/03/the-toxi... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8158510 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8158510 (I don't plan to worry much, the article was pretty bad.)
- jey 12y agoThat's fine with me as long as it stays in the steel and isn't dissolving into the contents.
- durkie 12y agothere are also plenty of plastics that don't use bpa. bpa is only used in polycarbonate bottles.
- neolefty 12y agoFrom paragraph #4: > A 2011 study published in Environmental Health Perspectives found that almost all of the 455 commercially available plastics that were tested leached estrogenic chemicals. There are other endocrine disruptors out there -- I think the main point of the article is that the US has no systematic process for testing plastics for consumer use.