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How to Avoid Toxic Plastic Chemicals in Food Containers and Kitchen Appliances
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How to Avoid Toxic Plastic Chemicals in Food Containers and Kitchen Appliances
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Reducing your use of plastic is healthier for people and for the planet, but sometimes it’s very difficult to avoid plastic altogether (food processors/blenders, unbreakable toddler dishes, or breas...
tpumps, anyone?). Because reusable food containers and kitchen appliances are often made with toxic plastic chemicals, it’s important to know what your safest options are.
The biggest health problem with plastics is a set of harmful chemicals called endocrine disrupting compounds (EDC). EDCs are synthetic chemicals that mimic or block hormones and disrupt the body’s normal functions. This disruption can alter normal hormone levels, stopping or stimulating the production of hormones, or changing the way hormones travel through the body, thus affecting the functions that these hormones control.
Estrogenic Activity (EA) has been documented repeatedly in BPA-based plastics, and more recently in other plastics made made with unknown endocrine disrupting chemicals.
Unless you’ve been able to confirm with manufacturers exactly what plastic is used in their products, the safest way to navigate this minefield is to skip #7 plastic altogether and go with cloudy, flexible plastics from the #2 (HDPE), #4 (LDPE) and #5 (PP) categories instead. Cloudy, flexible plastic indicates that it’s made from either polyethylene or polypropylene plastic. Since these plastics have a long track record of safety, they’re the best option when trying to avoid toxic chemicals.
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