[Aer]

(04-09-2013 07:09 AM)Lazarus Wrote:  

@ OP: Could the difference be something in the water? Does Russia not add fluoride to their water, for example?

You can't drink Russian tap water. Dysentery.

I just drank bottled, and Sweden doesn't add flouride last time I checked.

[Handsome Creepy Eel]

But by all logic, you consumed more BPA in Russia, since you drank exclusively bottled water while there. I'm still confused.

[Ensam]

(04-09-2013 07:07 AM)Lazarus Wrote:  

Cool. Thanks. Do you know if there are any chemicals we are exposed to in our every day lives that are a threat we could minimise?

Also, when you said paper did you mean all printed paper (such as office print outs or books) or just receipts etc?

I'm more on the science side of things than the health side of things but I know what I wont touch in the lab. Plasticizers are pretty nasty. They're all small molecules and many are likely endocrine disrupters and carcinogens. Avoid walking on synthetic carpets with bare feet and keep carpeted rooms well ventilated. The worst chemical you probably come into contact with on a daily basis is benzine, which is in gasoline. Don't spent a lot of time hanging around gas stations. It really all comes down to exposure though. Most things are fine in moderation. Our bodies are very good at getting rid of nasty stuff provided the exposure is low level.

On the paper issue it's predominately the thermally printed receipts, but those get recycled so increasingly recycled paper is also having levels of BPA in it.

[Ensam]

(04-09-2013 07:49 AM)Handsome Creepy Eel Wrote:  

But by all logic, you consumed more BPA in Russia, since you drank exclusively bottled water while there. I'm still confused.

Most bottled water comes in PETE bottles which don't contain any BPA. The water bottles with potential BPA exposure risk are the PC (think Nalgene) and epoxy lined metal ones.

[scotian]

"If you don't have BPA in your body, you're not living in the modern world." (The Perils of Plastic, Time magazine).

[Lazarus]

(04-08-2013 03:04 AM)Handsome Creepy Eel Wrote:  

Interesting. Had no idea about thermal printers working that way.

I don't understand the moral of the post though. Bisphenol A is dangerous, yes, but you avoided it by... drinking from a water bottle? What other food or drink from plastic containers are you consuming? I find myself hard pressed to think of anything that isn't packaged in simple cardboard. Unless you eat those premade dinners (and even then the problem is plastic leaching from heat, not just by itself), I just don't know where all this plastic concerning food is.

I didn't think of it until now but meat is wrapped in plastic or sold in plastic bags, at least in Aus.

[Rolling Stone]

from what I've heard, the bigger danger is when you put hot foods on a plastic container or heat foods in a plastic container like in a microwave. The hotter temp supposedly releases or leeches the bpa into your food.