

BPA alternative may cause just as many problems






Source: Science Daily

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RE: Here's a thought...
By Solandri on 1/23/2013 8:32:29 PM , Rating: 2
Metal containers have a plastic lining inside. If you expose the metal to the liquid, it starts to corrode (yes even stainless steel will corrode), and atoms of the metal and its oxide float off in the water. This is also true of aluminum soda cans. There's a plastic lining on the inside. If you're handy with a knife, you can cut a can in half and peel off the plastic to see for yourself.

So your choices are pretty much glass with its fragility and breakage problems, or metal/plastic with the BPA/BPS scare. Or you can accept that the environment is trying to kill you, decide to live with the small risk, and enjoy life instead of worrying about every little thing. If there's a big risk, it'll be established pretty quickly (e.g. ozone depletion, thalidomide). If something is classified as "may be a risk" for decades, that's a pretty good indicator that the risk, if there even is one, is very small.

RE: Here's a thought...
By lexluthermiester on 1/24/2013 2:48:42 PM , Rating: 2
There is no plastic lining in aluminum cans. Aluminum naturally creates a lining in the form of aluminum oxide upon contact with air. Lining aluminum cans would be costly and redundant. And yes, out of curiosity, I just tried your idea of cutting open a can and "peeling" off the suggested layer. There was none.

And properly made glass is not as fragile as you seem to think.


And oh yes, let us all just live with the un-natural poisons being fed to us by the companies who care more about providing a profit to their share-holders than they do about real safety. What a wonderful mentality! Yes, let's not worry at all about a little bit of poison here, a few chemicals there. After all how much real harm can they do, right? We all might as well just hop in front of a fast moving freight train!

RE: Here's a thought...
By lexluthermiester on 1/24/2013 2:55:06 PM , Rating: 2
And if the sarcasm of my previous statement didn't ring loud as a bell, let me be direct.

The mentality your entire statement just suggested is little more the irresponsible, half-witted nonsense and makes you look like a dolt spouting retarded gibberish. My 6 year old has better common sense than you have displayed.

