Converting the units to make comparison easier:
Worst case ingested dose for toddlers: 22.1ng/kg·day
Dose found to be toxic in vitro: 1,000,000,000ng/kg
Microwaved plastic containers release microplastics into food
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Re: Microwaved plastic containers release microplastics into food
#32It's great to have some science on it but a lot of people have considered this common sense for one or two decennia.
Have they really?
Because many people use plastic Tupperware in the microwave. I've never purchased a piece of tuperware that said it would release microplastics into the food if I put it in the microwave.
I don't know what it is lately but I feel like a lot of things labeled as "myths" and "woo woo" seem to be coming out as actually harmful, forever chemicals, fluoride in drinking water are others that come to mind.
I remember there was a bit of a trend to rubbish using microwaves, as if it harmed the food or something, but it is curious that those people actually had a point, at least when the microwave was combined with plastic containers.
My opinion, it's better to always have an open mind.
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#33Great news, my local council outlawed or out regulated throw away plastic food containers so everything is not in waxed cardboard. Which holds up about as long as the food is actually safe to eat. So win win.
That cardboard ain't waxed, it's covered in plastic.
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#34Microwaving aside, food and plastics don't go well together.
Study Finds Microplastics in More than 90 Percent of Tested Water Bottles
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/study-finds-microp...
Just opening a plastic bottle can release thousands of microplastics
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2237900-just-opening-a-...
Study: Plastic Baby Bottles Shed Microplastics When Heated. Should You Be Worried?
https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2020/10/19/9255251...
NIST Study Shows Everyday Plastic Products Release Trillions of Microscopic Particles Into Water
https://www.nist.gov/news-events/news/2022/04/nist-study-sho...
Occurrence of microplastics in raw and treated drinking water
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00489...
Plastic bottles for chilled carbonated beverages as a source of microplastics and nanoplastics
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37354839/
Plastic containers still distributed across the US are a potential health disaster
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jun/01/pfas-law...
Re: Microwaved plastic containers release microplastics into food
#35It's great to have some science on it but a lot of people have considered this common sense for one or two decennia.
Agreed. I haven’t microwaved food in plastic for 20+ years. It just always seemed gross. My biggest beef with plastic containers is that once washed with cheap dish soap (e.g. Dawn) the plastic container and any food stored in it always an forever smell and taste like the fragrance in the soap. I don’t find this to be a problem when using 7th Generation dish soap, which I consider to be far superior.
>I don’t find this to be a problem when using 7th Generation dish soap, which I consider to be far superior.
I feel i'm about to fall into a rabit hole where i read way too much about dish soap. Is this a joke or is there really such a thing as 7th generation dish soap?
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#36Why we don't use glassware? It's perfect for food. 1. Easy for cleaning 2. Good glass container will look new for years with proper washing 3. It breaks. So it requires full attention of person handling it. We all want to live in present moment, don't we? Use glassware and you will be in the present moment more often ;)
Ikea glass containers are sturdy
yep, can confirm, have been using them for years and didn't break a single one. I bring them to rally events and other sites without issue.
Re: Microwaved plastic containers release microplastics into food
#37Great news, my local council outlawed or out regulated throw away plastic food containers so everything is not in waxed cardboard. Which holds up about as long as the food is actually safe to eat. So win win.
More of this needed. Australian politicians too weak for stuff like this.
>> From 1 February 2023, Victorians cannot purchase, or be supplied with single-use plastic drinking straws, plates, cutlery, drink stirrers, cotton bud sticks or expanded polystyrene food service items and drink containers from any business or organisation. These items cannot be sold or given away for free.
https://www.vic.gov.au/single-use-plastics
Other Australian states* have either already done this or have it in their legislative pipeline.
( * except for Tasmania )
Re: Microwaved plastic containers release microplastics into food
#38I've long ago stopped cooking or putting hot food in plastic containers.. not because of this but because of the possibility other harmful substances leeching from the plastic in to my food. Sure, there are some plastics labeled "for safe" and "BPA-free", but that doesn't guarantee some other plastic that's used doesn't contain harmful substances or cause as yet unknown side effects that just haven't been found by re…
> Sure, there are some plastics labeled "for safe" and "BPA-free"
Indeed, it's common to substitute bisphenol-B for bisphenol-A in these situations.
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#39I'm shocked.
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#40Earlier quoted context omitted.
Some of us do use it. It just has the slight problem of weighing 200 tons which makes it mildly impractical for anything but use at home.
At least we don’t know our neighbors anymore. We wouldn’t want to get invited to a potluck, bring our scalloped potatoes in a Pyrex dish, leave the leftovers with the host, and never got our dish back.
Mmmm. Cheesy scalloped potatoes. I haven’t had that for a long time. One of my most treasured possessions is a folded piece of paper on which my mom hand wrote her cheesy scalloped potatoes recipe for me.