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Archive for March 30th, 2011

Study shows that the bottled water was contaminated with a powerful hormone, which would affect the endocrine system and that this would only be the tip of the iceberg, as regards the rest of the prepackaged foodstuffs.
In one of the studies available on the analysis1 mineral waters business, the researchers found evidence of leaching of estrogenic compounds in plastic packaging of the water.
These results show for the first time that the filtration of substances by the packaging materials for plastic containing a functional foods acting as estrogen, as Springer these results were published in the journal of Environmental Science and pollution.
Wagner and Oehlmann analyzed whether the migration of substances on the basis of packaging material to the foodstuffs, contributes to human exposure of the hormones made by the man.
Analyzed 20 brands of mineral water in Germany, nine glass bottles, nine bottled in plastic bottles and two compounds in the packaging (cardboard boxes with lining with plastic film).
The researchers took samples of water bottles and tested the presence of chemicals estrogenic in vitro.
The mineral waters in glass bottles were less pollution estrogenic, in connection with the waters in plastic bottles, in particular, 33 percent of all the mineral water bottled in glass jars compared with 78 percent of water in plastic bottles and two bottles of water in the compound packaging important, the hormonal activity. Read the rest of this entry »