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Hazards of hydration: choose your plastic water bottles carefully.

Publication: Sierra
Publication Date: 01-NOV-03
Format: Online - approximately 638 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Hazards of hydration: choose your plastic water bottles carefully.(Lay Of The Land)

Article Excerpt
Clear, lightweight, and sturdy polycarbonate plastic bottles are standard equipment for millions of hikers and babies. (They are usually labeled #7 on the bottom; Nalgene is the best-known producer.) Since polycarbonate bottles don't impart a taste to fluids, many users assume they are safer than bottles made out of other kinds of plastic. But now an accidental discovery has cast doubt on their safety.

The surprise results came in 1998 during an animal study led by Dr. Patricia Hunt, a geneticist at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland. Her team was investigating causes of...

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