Now they say dont drink water out of plastic bottles...

[rightcharlie]

...well they did in The Wright Stuff this morning (i watch that when im doing the mail and pretend Im in a proper office havin' a gossip)

I feel tons better since ditching tap water for bottled (they cant get all the estrogen/hormones/bog cleaner out of the tap water and men grow breasts) but now they say avoid plastic bottles.

I wonder which is the less of the two evils?

[dragonmist]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/fish/story/0,7369,1258132,00.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/fish/story/0,7369,1263784,00.html
These were printed in 2004. The problem with fish is worse now than it was then.

This research file was from 1994.[ rather long pdf file]
http://www.silsoe.cranfield.ac.uk/ieh/pdf/a1.pdf

I wouldn't drink our tap water if you paid me. After reading that research I would rather take my chances with the large plastic bottles of spring water we buy. The tap water tastes foul anyway. Even the cats and dog won't drink it, and the water board does not recommend keeping pet fish in it !!!

None of my grandsons have ever had tap water to drink. I first heard about this problem 30 years ago from a Water Board employee. His advice was don't drink the water. They have done nothing about it. With the widespread use of the pill, the problem is worse each year. There is not only an increase in sexual deformities in fish, but there are an increasing number of male babies born with sexual deformities too. There was one baby born in a local village. After deciding there was no way "he" could be a functioning male child, "he" had a tidying up operation, and is now being raised as a girl. At 12 they will give "her" female hormones so she will at least develop like a female.

[brighteyes]

I guess you just shouldn't leave water lying out too long, as it can grow bacteria. Use new bottles or wash out older ones thoroughly, this should help with bacteria growth.

[damian_steele]

I wonder which is the less of the two evils?

http://www.londonstimes.us/toons/cartoons/weevils.gif

I think it's the one on the right. ;)

[cutpricegoodies]

I thought that the chemicals in the bottles leached into the water anyway.

Nothing is safe, stay thirsty.

[rightcharlie]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/fish/story/0,7369,1258132,00.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/fish/story/0,7369,1263784,00.html
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. OMG!

[deeze792]

I dont drink out of plastic bottles .... I use a glass :D

[rightcharlie]

problem solved! ( i will submit your recomendations to the new scientist magazine) :-)

[cutpricegoodies]

They would probably tell you to drink tea (and eat biscuits at the same time).

http://www.davethewave.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/ebid/tea-mug.jpg

[emma5721]

whats wrong with plastic bottles then?????
cant think much more than a limescale ridden tap
sigh cant win in this day and age unless you are a professor of medicine or science

will carry on drinking the fantastic bottled water which it is

as for leaving it out once opened for a few days
i've never found that a problem really

[earthangel]

There's not much point avoiding plastic bottles. If they don't get you that way, they'll get you another. Perhaps with mercury in your dental fillings, or carcinogens in your food.

[razamakaz]

When I think of all the bad things I did as a child - like eating RAW sausages etc. - it never did me any harm. I think there's too much scaremongering going on now.

[damian_steele]

... now they say avoid plastic bottles.


What reason/s did they give?

What proof did they offer?

Does it relate to all plastic bottles (with water) or just certain plastics / certain waters?

If this is a problem with the plastic, does it mean that other drinks which are packaged in similar plastic bottles will also suffer from the same problem?

What is the original source of the story?

[fairywishes]

i heard this ages ago too, lol but the version i heard was that you should not refill and reuse plastic bottles , due to some chemical in the plastic ( i saw it , at the time as a scam to make you keep buying new bottles instead of filling with your own home filtered water ).

[MadcatwomanEnterprises]

I've always had bottled water since I moved to this town in '87. The stuff from the tap smells like the chlorine in swimming baths, ick. I would rather chance the plastic bottles that the stuff from the tap.

[rightcharlie]

What reason/s did they give?

What proof did they offer?

Does it relate to all plastic bottles (with water) or just certain plastics / certain waters?

If this is a problem with the plastic, does it mean that other drinks which are packaged in similar plastic bottles will also suffer from the same problem?

What is the original source of the story?
they didn't validate their assertion but when i think about it er....well, im going to stick with the bottled over the tap....
(i can see the plastic bottles may be an issue but hey, you cant live in a box can you, oh yeah, you do right?)

[damian_steele]

Seems to me that if the bottles weren't safe then the companies wouldn't be allowed to use them.

[ziggyyy]

If your times up its feckin `up......we`re all going to pass away by some means....
Just think....if we didn`t read newspapers,watch tv ect etc.....the scare-mongering wouldn`t get to us.....we`d all live in blissful ignorance...and just as long I`ll bet.

Anyone know anyone who knows anyone who contracted bird-flu ??...........Me neither.............

[ziggyyy]

I was told as a teenager that if I w*nked too much my eyesight would suffer..........scaremongering again.....:confused:

Off to bed now,hope I don`t bump into the wardrobe like last night.................:rolleyes:

[rightcharlie]

If your times up its feckin `up......we`re all going to pass away by some means....
Just think....if we didn`t read newspapers,watch tv ect etc.....the scare-mongering wouldn`t get to us.....we`d all live in blissful ignorance...and just as long I`ll bet.

Anyone know anyone who knows anyone who contracted bird-flu ??...........Me neither.............


you're right but man breasts really are a big problem, i told a freind about the hormones in tap water and he switched and he did loose at least an inch off the boobs...

[ziggyyy]

you're right but man breasts really are a big problem, i told a freind about the hormones in tap water and he switched and he did loose at least an inch off the boobs...

Yeah but that was through carryin `all that bottled water home...........................

[ziggysfirstborn]

u tucked it away in yer pants dint ya ziggs? me saw u on crimewatch *(lmao)*

[rainbowcraft]

as for leaving it out once opened for a few days
i've never found that a problem really


Me neither, I get through more than 2 litres a day, so no chance of having an opened bottle sitting around for longer than about 8-10 hours....

[rainbowcraft]

When I think of all the bad things I did as a child - like eating RAW sausages etc. - it never did me any harm. I think there's too much scaremongering going on now.

LOL! I used to love raw sausages...but those were the days of proper butchers shops, and your mum (and the butcher) usually knew what was in them! Nowadays sausages are stuffed with more mank than meat, and preservatives that help defy the bacteria-growing process.

*shudders*

[rainbowcraft]

Seems to me that if the bottles weren't safe then the companies wouldn't be allowed to use them.


OH YEAH! LOL...like a certain soft drinks company aren't allowed to pump green waste sludge into the river...but they still do.

[thehoneyant]

This bits about the bottles only not the contents.



Bottled Water Association advises against reusing the
containers altogether. It says the containers are made for single use and
should be recycled afterward, not reused. People would be unable to properly
sterilize the bottles at home, and the industry doesn't evaluate the safety
of the bottles for multiple uses,

Although plastics experts contend the bottles are safe, the study ultimately
concluded little is known about what happens when the bottles are used over
and over again. "The fact is, a lot of these compounds have not really been
studied in terms of their human health effects,"

Single-use soft-drink and water bottles are
commonly made of a plastic called polyethylene terephthalate (PET) which,
while considered safe for its intended use, was found to break down over
time. "The longer you used it, the more stuff ended up in the water,"


I suppose the moral is use once and re-cycle. ;) But don't the environmentalists complain about plastic taking longer to degrade ? !! :confused: oops,....... that's another issue.
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[ziggyyy]

u tucked it away in yer pants dint ya ziggs? me saw u on crimewatch *(lmao)*
Left a message for you on AG......damn...forgot,you won`t be able to read it *LMAO*

[emma5721]

Me neither, I get through more than 2 litres a day, so no chance of having an opened bottle sitting around for longer than about 8-10 hours....

good for you
if you do leave it for more than 10 hours by any chance best put it in the fridge just in case