Look for this sign ;-)
...Aaaaaarrrrgh
Posted on 12/28/2007 12:35:20 AM PST by neverdem
Happened to me yesterday.......
Polycarbonate is some mighty tough stuff, though. I have a length of 1" tube made from polycarbonate that I used a piece of to make a fuel sight glass for the airplane I built. You can drive an 8d nail with that tube and it barely makes a scratch on it.....
Which means that a 150# person would have to eat just under a POUND of it, 433 Grams.
This is more likely just a Trial Lawyer Wish, like the "Poison Teflon Monomer" ploy we heard about for the last two years.
Everyone wants to have the next Asbestos lawsuit.
So that s’plains why my boobies have been getting bigger. My wife thinks it’s because I eat too much. Can’t wait to show her this article! ;^)
Thanks for clarifying for me, reminds me of the cyclamates (sugar substitute) from the 60’s...you would have had to drink a couple of dozen cases of soda to get any liver damage...yechhhh.
Same stuff.
But I don’t have to pay $10 to be trendy.
LOL, good for you.
Ah contraire o facedown, Gatorade bottle are made out of #1 PET poluetheylneterphalte. (Dont hold me to that spelling:-)} Incidentally the prime use for old pop bottle was in the carpet business at that time.
I used to run a small plastic recycling plant a few years back and ground up many a pop and Gatorade bottle. We also recycled the big 5 gallon water bottle from the bottled water company. Those were made out of polycarbonate though.
Regards
alfa6 ;>}
OMG, that would be polyethylene terephthalate which has got to be even worse! 8^)
#1 PET?
Didn’t I see that on doggie sweaters in that Yorkie Accessory Store?
Does it have a recycle triangle? Start there.
I wouldn’t be worried about Nalgene products. USA made, quality controlled. IMHO this is an example of Canadians, bashing a quality American product.
What I’d be worried about, are the flood of fake Nalgene - the knockoff stuff you see all over the place which is made in China.
Nalgene rocks.
Knockoffs however. Who knows what’s in those...
Look for this sign ;-)
...Aaaaaarrrrgh
Send it to me. I’ll use it for a couple years and then be able to tell you.
Thanks for the ping.
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At my age, (late 40s), estrogen dominance is something for me to watch for, (actually it’s something for all girls and women to watch for at every age), and I have heard that the polycarbonate plastic sometimes increases estrogen levels way too much, which is very very bad for a woman’s physical AND emotional health when it proportionally throws off all the other levels (such as progesterone), so, that is why I am trying to get away from polycarbonate plastic.
I also take Nature’s Sunshine wild yam capsules and use Rexall progesterone cream from Wal-Mart to help avoid estrogen dominance and to help keep my progesterone up where I need it to be.
“I received a water bottle for Christmas, but I cannot determine if it contains this material. Nothing on the bottle itself lists what it is made of.
Anyone know how to tell?”
Only way for sure to know is to use the water bottle regularly and then try out for the Vienna Boys Choir. If you make it, then it probably had the hormone-mimicking chemicals.
This is much ado about nothing. See http://www.nalgene-outdoor.com/technical/FDAstatement.html and http://www.nalgene-outdoor.com/PDFs/Nalgene_BPAStatement.pdf
I have used a Nalgene bottle (recycle #7 on the bottom) for about 3 years, and intend to keep on using it. The chemicals in my pool, in the air, or in my everyday food, are probably more risky. Should we stop living due to fear of everything?
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