down home wrote:
CavemanCharlie wrote:
down home wrote:
Our Drinking water hose has a small label on one end from some safety council as an approved drinking water hose. It's at the coach so I can't read it.
those without that approval are questionable.
May not get sick from drinking pvc and polymides and synthetic female hormondes but I prefer not to gamble. I hate the water hose taste. Have you smelled some of the Chinese rubber hoses or plastic hoses? Reminds me of raw rubber and the treatment they used on army tents and every thing else.
I don't drink out of mud puddles any more either.
What is a synthetic female hormondes ?? :p
The name and acronmyms escapes right now but they were developed as synthetic female hormones but did not perform as they wished. They have been used to line jsut about all cans and palstic bottles and hoes linings for water. They were found to harden the linings and to keep liquids in and gasses like CO2 from escaping porous plastic bottles.
Canad and much of the world has banned them. In the U they are only banned from baby bottles, if that now.
They do bleed into whatever is in the container, from water to beer and they do invade the body and serve the function they were originally designed for to an extent.It has been proven that they are taken up by the body and become part of the makeup of the endocryn natural output. In other words they are passed along to our children.
Maybe this is the reason American men seem so docile and whiney these days and girls reach puberty much younger and are much more developed and logic and judgement is twisted. For the life of me i do not understand why FDA continues to let them be used.
Just read anything regarding the testing of products on the FDA gov site. You will see that 'big business' and ONLY big business drives what FDA approves and what is not approved. Safety has nothing to do with it. If banning it will affect big business they just simply up the ppm where it causes cancer to a level that big business can deal with. We the people and our health are not taken into consideration.
".....BPA is a weak synthetic estrogen found in many rigid plastic products, food and formula can linings, dental sealants, and on the shiny side of paper cashier receipts (to stabilize the ink). Its estrogen-like activity makes it a hormone disruptor, like many other chemicals in plastics. Hormone disruptors can affect how estrogen and other hormones act in the body, by blocking them or mimicking them, which throws off the body's hormonal balance. Because estrogen can make hormone-receptor-positive breast cancer develop and grow, many women choose to limit their exposure to these chemicals that can act like estrogen.
....."BPA also seems to affect brain development in the womb. In 2011, a study found that pregnant women with high levels of BPA in their urine were more likely to have daughters who showed signs of hyperactivity, anxiety, and depression. ...."
http://www.breastcancer.org/risk/factors/plasticBan BPA? Then the manufactures just substituted this ingredient. :R
..."The model suggested that one of Tritan's ingredients—triphenyl phosphate, or TPP—was
more estrogenic than BPA...."
Eastman, which never disclosed these findings to its customers, later commissioned another study, this one involving breast cancer cells. Again, the initial results appeared positive for estrogenic activity. In an email to colleagues, Eastman's senior toxicologist, James Deyo,
http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2014/03/tritan-certichem-eastman-bpa-free-plastic-safe
