Fwd: Plastic Wrap in Mirowaves

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I thought it interesting it took a student to research what the FDA had not...

but I give the research center credit for supplying the facilities, especially

since they are connected with the FDA...

 

Be Well, Misty

 

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PLASTIC WRAP IN THE MICROWAVE

 

As a seventh grade student, Claire Nelson learned that di(ethylhexyl) adepate

(DEHA), considered a carcinogen, is found in plastic wrap. She also learned that

the FDA had never studied the effect of microwave cooking on plastic wrapped

food. Claire began to wonder: " Can cancer causing particles seep into food

covered with household plastic wrap while being in the microwave? " Three years

later, with encouragement from her high school science teacher, Claire set out

to test what the FDA had not.

 

Although she had an idea for studying the effect of microwave radiation on

plastic-wrapped food, she did not have the equipment. Eventually, Jon Wilkes at

the National Center for Toxicological Research in Jefferson, Arkansas agreed to

help her. The research center, which is affiliated with the FDA,

let her use its facilities to perform her experiments that involves

plastic wrap in virgin olive oil heated in the microwave.

 

Claire tested four different plastic raps and " found not just the

carcinogens but also xenoestrogen was migrating [into the oil].... "

Xenoestrogens are linked to low sperm counts in men and to breast cancer in >

women. Throughout her junior and senior years, Claire made a couple of trips

each week to the research center, which was 25 miles from her home, to work

on her experiment.

 

An article in Options reported that " her analysis found that DEHA was migrating

into the oil at between 200 parts and 500 parts per million. The FDA standard is

0.05 parts per billion. " Her summarized results have been published in science

journals. Claire Nelson received the American Chemical

Society's top science prize for students during her junior year and fourth place

at the International Science and Engineering Fair (Fort Worth, Texas) as a

senior. " Carcinogens -- At

10,000,000 Times FDA Limits "

 

On Channel 2 (Huntsville, AL) this morning they had a Dr. Edward Fujimoto from

Castle Hospital on the program. He is the manager of the Wellness Program at the

hospital. He was talking about dioxins and how bad they are for us. He said that

we should not be heating our food in the microwave using plastic containers.

This applies to foods that contain fat. He said that the combination of fat,

high heat and plastics releases dioxins into the food and ultimately into the

cells of the body.

 

Dioxins are carcinogens and highly toxic to the cells of our bodies.

 

Instead, he recommends using glass, Corning Ware, or ceramic containers for

heating food. You get the same results without the dioxins. So such things as TV

dinners, instant simian and soups, etc., should be removed from the container

and heated in something else. Paper isn't bad but you don't know what is in the

paper.

 

 

Just safer to use tempered glass, Corning Ware, etc. He said we might remember

when some of the fast food restaurants moved away from the foam containers to

paper. The dioxin problem is one of the reasons.

 

To add to this: Saran wrap placed over foods as they are nuked, with the high

heat, actually drips poisonous toxins into the food. Use paper towel instead.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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