That stuff has been in hot delivery trucks, hot storerooms, you name it.

They just don't run lots of tests on that because people know not to put plastic in the oven. But it will leach just as badly. The warmer the plastic gets, the more it is compromised and leaches chemicals. That's why they note in the article that just going from refrigeration to room temp releases particles, just not as much. And if you look up trucker reports, you'll see that it is hauled in hot trucks and stored in hot warehouses.

bodies and in their family's bodies - especially dangerous for kids.

I try to make it personal.

and in their family's bodies - especially dangerous for kids.

I try to make it personal.

A "billion" plastic nanoparticles probably weigh around .00001 milligrams. If plastics demonstrate toxicity at those levels, we're all pretty much screwed anyway.

It's everywhere, inside and outside of us.

That was the beginning of this mess starting in grocery stores that insist you use plastic bags over traditional brown bags. If you wanted to use paper, everyone in line would grown and be very upset you were destroying the environment. Amazing!

In the 1970s the available evidence supported that plastic over paper was better for the environment. Now there is more evidence available which requires moving to a different position.

“The big question is what is happening in our body?” Vethaak said. “Are the particles retained in the body? Are they transported to certain organs, such as getting past the blood-brain barrier?” And are these levels sufficiently high to trigger disease? We urgently need to fund further research so we can find out.”

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/mar/24/microplastics-found-in-human-blood-for-first-time

March 2022

Google this stuff. You'll find them. The studies are pretty new. First it was plastic particles in breast milk, then they found it in our blood, then they found it in lungs and other organs, and most recently they confirmed it passed the blood-brain barrier. Think of it this way - they now know that there is no place on Earth where you can't find plastic. It's in the air, it's in the rain, it is on top of Mount Everest, it's at the bottom of the oceans. Why wouldn't it be in us?

…What's not clear right now is what these microscopic plastic particles are doing to us. Studies have shown they can potentially be harmful to the intestine and key biological processes, but it's an area scientists aren't sure about…

If it’s not clear no need to panic porn….not sure about…so neither am I.

What baby food product requires 3 minutes of heating in 1000w microwave for 3 minutes?? Baby steak?

P.s. to poster…it’s never personal, it’s a conflict with logic from the assembled and presented in a single article facts that bothers.

yet to determine what it's doing to us. That said, it's pretty clear that plastic particles in our lungs is not beneficial. And as the use of plastic water bottles has risen so has colon cancer in younger people. Now that they know it's in our bodies, it's only a matter of time before they are able to determine how harmful it is.

One thing I will say is that the burden of proof is on the plastics industry to prove that these substances are safe in the environment in large quantities, not on others to prove they are unsafe.

This is similar to climate change. Why do environmental groups have to be the ones to build all these complicated Earth System Models while the deniers do nothing but just throw rocks? Let them build the models so we can throw rocks.

We relied on the tobacco industry, and look where that got us. As to correlation versus causation, you are missing my point. I'm saying the scientific community has just now woken up to the dangers of plastic with regard to the human body. It's so early in the game that correlation and disease are all we have to go with right now. For your reading pleasure:

LUNGS: https://www.npr.org/2022/04/06/1091246691/microplastics-found-in-human-lungs
BLOOD BRAIN BARRIER:
https://www.technologynetworks.com/applied-sciences/news/bloodbrain-barrier-breached-by-microplastics-372463#:~:text=And%20now%20for%20the%20first,protect%20humans%20and%20the%20environment.
BREAST MILK:
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/oct/07/microplastics-human-breast-milk-first-time
HEART TISSUE AND BLOOD:
https://www.acs.org/pressroom/presspacs/2023/august/microplastics-found-in-human-heart-tissues-before-and-after-surgical-procedures.html#:~:text=A%20pilot%20study%20found%20microplastics,people%20who%20underwent%20cardiac%20surgery.&text=Everywhere%20scientists%20look%20for%20microplastics,parts%20of%20the%20human%20body.
LIVER:
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/ebiom/article/PIIS2352-3964(22)00328-0/fulltext

I'll let you play with Googling other organs.

right thing…the marketplace only wants short term profit. Long term is…not their thing.

Full stop.

70% of a bottle comes from a recycled bottle. Plastic is just more convenient.

Disclaimer: former glass worker. Only the Best Comes In Glass.