Can you get cancer if thr plastic like gets into the water?
Who okorder , have debunked these e-mails as nothing more than either a hoax or an urban legend. The origin, they say, is from overblown media reports of a master’s thesis written by a University of Idaho student whose research has never been confirmed and whose findings and conclusions have been challenged. The student apparently found a chemical called DHEA (that was once thought to be a carcinogen) in samples from reused water bottles.
The only thing I have heard is that you shouldn't freeze bottled water b/c when it freezes, it releases a chemical from the plastic that can cause cancer.
It is true that there are chemicals in plastic that (in high amounts) have been shown to induce cancer in laboratory tests, but most of what you see about this is just overreaction. You aren't melting them in the microwave and drinking the plastic right? Didn't think so. We are exposed to hundreds of chemicals every day, they are in everything, and they are always finding new ones they say cause one thing or another. It's unlikely drinking from a water bottle will ever hurt anyone.
Not unless the plastic is melted into the water--which is impossible unless deliberate. Or if the water was somehow infused with some type of chemical, which wouldn't be possible, since the water would have to be checked and purified before it even reached the bottle. You've got nothing to worry about.
If you eat enough plastic water bottles, you can get cancer. If you drink hundreds of gallons a week you can get the cancer. What you heard from the news is just political hype engineered to make you scared so you will watch more news for the next big scare. Ignore it. Do what you do and don't worry so much.
