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Beach Girl
True Blue Farmgirl
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Vanessa
Williamsburg
VA
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 Posted - Dec 22 2007 : 06:36:52 AM
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I want to tell everyone what I have been told about REUSING the #1 bottles.
When I lived in VA I knew a woman who worked for the state environmental department. She also worked closely with those in the EPA in DC. She was telling me that the #1 bottles are fine for a ONE time use only. Once you open them, they begin to break down and then the chemicals in the plastic will go into whatever is in the bottle. To open a soda or bottle of water and drink it then & there is fine, but do not save it and refill it. As someone else said here somewhere, it is not an if that reusing them will cause cancer, it is a when.
So, if you do drink from the #1 bottles, just don't reuse them.
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Leezard
True Blue Farmgirl
950 Posts
Elizabeth
Novi
MI
USA
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sleepless reader
True Blue Farmgirl
1022 Posts
CA
USA
1022 Posts |
Posted - Dec 25 2007 : 11:07:40 AM
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Just checked; our bottles are the #7 Nalgene. Guess they will go to recycling. Have to save up for the kleen kanteens! At home, we drink out of canning jars. It's funny, but when we had a "real" set of drinking glasses we would break them all the time. Since we started using the canning jars, I think we've broken maybe 3! I think it's time to dump the tupperware too and other plastics and go back to the glass bowls and containers I used to use (before kids and breakage issues). Here's to a healthier new year!
Sharon
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Holiday Angel
True Blue Farmgirl
444 Posts
Pauline
Sweet Home
Oregon
USA
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kissmekate
True Blue Farmgirl
890 Posts
Kate
Delano
Minnesota
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jenbove
Moderator
320 Posts
Jennifer
Calico Rock
AR
USA
320 Posts |
Posted - Jan 30 2008 : 6:49:20 PM
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I remembered hearing something about freezing breast milk in glass, too, Pauline. So, I looked into it online & found some fairly ambiguous info. Basically, the trouble with glass is not that it leaches into the milk - glass is inert & as "safe" as containers get. According to some studies, though, the problem is that white blood cells (which transfer immunity from mom to baby) stick to glass more than plastic during refrigeration/freezing, so baby doesn't get as much protection. The moral of this story: like everything else, breast milk is best when it's fresh.
And I certainly agree - if one of the zillion health hazards out there doesn't kill you, worrying about all of them will! I think the trick is to do our best and not fret over all of the dreaded "what-ifs."
Jen
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