Plastic bottle query

arkonite_babe

Just received this info in an email

WARN YOUR WIVES/GIRLFRIENDS AND DAUGHTERS

Bottled water in your car.....very dangerous, woman!!!!
This is how Sheryl Crow got breast cancer. She was on the Ellen show and
said this same exact thing. This has been identified as the most common
cause of the high levels in breast cancer, especially in Australia.

A friend whose mother was recently diagnosed with breast cancer. The Doctor
told her: women should not drink bottled water that has been left in a car.

The doctor said that the heat and the plastic of the bottle have certain
chemicals that can lead to breast cancer. So please be careful and do not
drink bottled water that has been left in a car, and, pass this on to all
the women in your life. This information is the kind we need to know and be
aware and just might save us!!!! The heat causes toxins from the plastic to
leak into the water and they have found these toxins in breast tissue. Use
a stainless steel Canteen or a glass bottle when you can!!!

Let everyone that has a wife/girlfriend and daughter know please.

Can anyone shed any light on this or is it just a sick spam type thing???

kevingattaca

http://www.snopes.com/medical/toxins/petbottles.asp

Need I mention SNOPES.COM ???????????


K ( smiles )

UK007BullDog

its not completely wrong. some doctors do think that using certain plastics like in microwaves can release toxins which could create cancer.

arkonite_babe

kevingattaca wrote: »

http://www.snopes.com/medical/toxins/petbottles.asp

Need I mention SNOPES.COM ???????????


K ( smiles )

Forgot about snopes, thanks for that

molar

Little extract from Snopes:

More recent studies have claimed that some plastic products (including plastic baby bottles) leech miniscule amounts of bisphenol A, a substance that has been linked to reproductive problems and cancer in lab rats, into liquids. However, whether bisphenol A poses the same risks to humans, and whether the small amount of bisphenol A that might be ingested through the use of plastic bottles is sufficiently large to be of concern, are still subjects of considerable debate...

Just in case your still worried, there is a bottled water sold by Waitrose called Belu which comes in corn bottles although it is a bit more expensive than your average bottled water.
http://www.belu.org/

phizzimum

I've also read that freezing the bottles is a bad idea...I used to freeze water bottles overnight for the kids pack lunch boxes in summer but stopped when i read that.