Every drink out of a plastic bottle is a mixed drink.
We’ve heard a lot about concerns related to bisphenol A (BPA), the toxic chemical that has been banned from baby bottles in certain areas because experts worried that it was leaching into people’s bodies.
Now we know it is. In a big way.
A Harvard study released yesterday supports what many public health specialists have long assumed: Hard plastic drinking bottles containing bisphenol A are leaching notable amounts of the controversial chemical into people’s bodies.
Researchers from the Harvard School of Public Health found that people who drank for a week from the clear plastic polycarbonate bottles increased concentrations of bisphenol A - or BPA - in their urine by 69 percent.
And this test was done with bottles that had not been heated. Experts assume the amount of leaching would be much greater under those circumstances (such as heated baby bottles).
While BPA is in the news, I hear it could turn out to be just one of the many hazardous chemicals leaching from hard plastic bottles into our systems.
