Plastics, microwaves, and toxins
My first question to answer is one that tends to make the e-mail rounds frequently … don’t use plastics in the microwave because they release dioxins into your food.
I’ve been Googling this for a bit and finding some pretty contradictory answers. There are a lot of sites dunking this as an urban legend and myth, there are others that hold it up as solid truth.
From my memory about reading on this topic a few years ago I’m sure it’s been studied and while it might not be dioxins that leach into your food, other chemicals might. Case closed? Nope. That’s not what science is all about. I’m going to be on the hunt for published papers on the topic. Articles from the FDA and the plastics council are starting places, but I’m going to look for both the pro and con information.
So … more searching, more e-mailing. Sometimes answers aren’t easy to find and you can’t just take the one that sounds good to you. You have to do your research. You have to do the science.
Tags: plastics, microwaves, toxins
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