Whilst reading blogs this evening, i came across this post over at The Cleaner Plate Club. The post references this study about the toxins that are leaking from plastic food containers, and specifically from baby bottles. I had been reading about the dangers of various plastics recently, and had decided to start using glass containers for all of my food. I hadn’t quite gotten to it yet, though. I think i may need to make a trip to the mall tomorrow, in search of pyrex containers. The most disturbing thing to me is that my children, while never having used bottles, have both been heavily dependant upon sippy cups. I guess we’re going to have to start weaning them from that habit.
How distressing is it when products flood the market, to the point where you cannot get away from them, and then years later, after the damage has most likely been done, those products prove not to be safe. Why wasn’t more testing done? Why are we only finding out about the dangers of plastics now? Now that we’ve all been exposed.
