Just to rock the boat a bit. I worked in a brewery and all the bottles had a very thin plastic lining melted on inside. This was specified to reduce breakages. No i do not know any more that; it was 20 years ago. Tony
subject was Re: CS> On 28 Oct 2004 at 10:28, Garnet wrote: > Me too Sally. I only buy organic juices in glass and most of the time I > prefer to make my own juices fresh, mostly veggie since the fruit juices > have too much sugar for my metabolism. > > Garnet > > On Thu, 2004-10-28 at 10:29, Sally Khanna wrote: > > So in effect, you can "cure" them? Thanks for that. It's much more > > convenient to be able to use these bottles than glass, but I won't buy > > organic juices that are in PET plastic. I no longer consider them > > organic! > > > > Sally > > > > Marshall Dudley <mdud...@king-cart.com> wrote: > > It normally is not solvents. Normally what is outgassed from > > any plastic is either > > the monomer, or plasticizing agents. Soft plastics such as PVC > > will outgas the > > monomer such as vinyl chloride, and hard plastics that have a > > plasticizer added to > > them to make them soft will outgas the plasticizer. They are > > both especially nasty, > > usually both carcinogenic as well as immune suppressive. > > > > BTW, I have found that putting many plastics in the oven set > > to 150 F for 24 hours > > that is adding any taste to water or EIS will outgas pretty > > well all of it in the > > oven, and not do that after baking. > > > > Marshall > > > > Garnet wrote: > > > > > I was unaware of this. I was under the impression that only > > soft > > > plastics outgassed their solvent. The thermoset plastics > > supposedly do > > > not out gas anything. > > > > > > If this is true I would not use PET pastic. > > > > > > Garnet > > > 8>< snippped -- The Silver List is a moderated forum for discussing Colloidal Silver. Instructions for unsubscribing are posted at: http://silverlist.org To post, address your message to: silver-list@eskimo.com Silver List archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html Address Off-Topic messages to: silver-off-topic-l...@eskimo.com OT Archive: http://escribe.com/health/silverofftopiclist/index.html List maintainer: Mike Devour <mdev...@eskimo.com>