http://archive2.mrc.org/taxonomy/term/9643/all en http://archive2.mrc.org/articles/today-incites-more-alarm-over-water-bottles-even-reusable-ones <div class="field field-type-nodereference field-field-source"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <div class="field-label-inline-first"> By</div> <a href="/author/jeff-poor">Jeff Poor</a> </div> </div> </div> <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; First the media tell you plastic water bottles are bad for the environment, so they encourage you to drink tap water in reusable containers. Now some of those reusable containers aren’t safe.</p><p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; NBC’s April 9 “Today” program warned viewers of another threat to society – a miniscule level of bisphenol-A, a chemical found in some water bottles that causes health problems in lab rats when given doses “thousands” of times higher than what exists in the bottles.</p><p><a href="http://archive2.mrc.org/articles/today-incites-more-alarm-over-water-bottles-even-reusable-ones" target="_blank">read more</a></p> Articles MRC Business Environment Health bottle bottled chemical container danger plastic poison rat recycle reusable safe toxic water Wed, 09 Apr 2008 19:16:45 +0000 admin 26253 at http://archive2.mrc.org