03-29-2004, 08:33 AM
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Chef in Training
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Got this two years ago.
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Plastic Wrap Toxins. Author/s: Jule Klotter Issue: Jan, 2001
_____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 it is being microwaved?"
_____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, which involved microwaving plastic wrap in virgin olive oil.
______Claire tested four different plastic wraps 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 "[h]er 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" Options May 2000. Published by People Against Cancer, 515-972-4444; _COPYRIGHT 2001 The Townsend Letter Group COPYRIGHT 2001 Gale Group
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____Dr. Edward Fujimoto from Castle Hospital on the program 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 saimin 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.
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