Article in German about the danger of water bottles.
Dominikanische Republik: T?dliche Gefahr aus Plastikflaschen
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Water bottles in Santo Domingo -. Proconsumidor (National Institute for Consumer Protection rights) in the Dominican Republic warns the consumer expressly plastic containers.
In plastic are chemical compounds which are known as dioxins.
These toxins are deposited mainly in the fatty tissue of humans and animals that cause degenerative diseases. According to consumer protection organization, the danger lurks mainly in plastic bottles containing beverages and exposed to the sun. These include especially the "Botellones" big Kunststoffwassergallonen which usually for sale at the roadside and full day of Caribbean sun conditions.
Due to the resulting high temperatures are the pollutants released to record it with the water or any other beverage. In the long run for dioxins in the body and can seriously endanger health. Among other things, solve dioxins in the human body from cancer, can permanently damage the reproductive and result in children being born with degenerative changes. The same danger lurks in plastic packaged foods.
In the announcement of Proconsumidor pointed out that it is completely irrelevant whether water or juices to be taking, selects containers such as bags, bottles or gallons. Danger lurks in the plastic which upon exposure to heat, these chemical compounds cause long term damage to the body because these dioxins in the body are not degraded but are incorporated primarily in adipose tissue.
Not only Proconsumidor comes to these findings, the WHO (World Health Organization) reports of contaminants in the food chain (in conjunction with plastic packaging), which could harm the development and cause reproductive problems. Since dioxins interfere with hormones can also cause cancer. Proconsumidor thus warns against products not only the trade in the sun presents, and consumers should never expose water bottles in the car for a long time to heat.
As an extremely dangerous one calls the kind of cook rice in the Dominican Republic. It's a bad habit of the pot with plastic wrap / bag to cover the more heat store. In this intense heat can be detached immediately pollutants which pass into the food.
Dominikanische Republik: T?dliche Gefahr aus Plastikflaschen
Below is a google translation
Water bottles in Santo Domingo -. Proconsumidor (National Institute for Consumer Protection rights) in the Dominican Republic warns the consumer expressly plastic containers.
In plastic are chemical compounds which are known as dioxins.
These toxins are deposited mainly in the fatty tissue of humans and animals that cause degenerative diseases. According to consumer protection organization, the danger lurks mainly in plastic bottles containing beverages and exposed to the sun. These include especially the "Botellones" big Kunststoffwassergallonen which usually for sale at the roadside and full day of Caribbean sun conditions.
Due to the resulting high temperatures are the pollutants released to record it with the water or any other beverage. In the long run for dioxins in the body and can seriously endanger health. Among other things, solve dioxins in the human body from cancer, can permanently damage the reproductive and result in children being born with degenerative changes. The same danger lurks in plastic packaged foods.
In the announcement of Proconsumidor pointed out that it is completely irrelevant whether water or juices to be taking, selects containers such as bags, bottles or gallons. Danger lurks in the plastic which upon exposure to heat, these chemical compounds cause long term damage to the body because these dioxins in the body are not degraded but are incorporated primarily in adipose tissue.
Not only Proconsumidor comes to these findings, the WHO (World Health Organization) reports of contaminants in the food chain (in conjunction with plastic packaging), which could harm the development and cause reproductive problems. Since dioxins interfere with hormones can also cause cancer. Proconsumidor thus warns against products not only the trade in the sun presents, and consumers should never expose water bottles in the car for a long time to heat.
As an extremely dangerous one calls the kind of cook rice in the Dominican Republic. It's a bad habit of the pot with plastic wrap / bag to cover the more heat store. In this intense heat can be detached immediately pollutants which pass into the food.