Plastic Bottels could be Dangerous for Health

Martin Wagner and Jorg Oehlmann From Goethe University, Frankfurt am main, Germany, analysed the Bottled mineral water. They suggested that plastic mineral water bottles contaminate drinking water with estrogenic chemicals and these chemicals are potent in vivo and result in an increased development of embryos in the New Zealand mud snail. This is the first time that any research team have shown that substances leaching out of plastic food packaging materials act as functional estrogens (female sex hormone). In addition, Canadian researchers at the University of Guelph have found the leaching of Bisphenol A (BPA), the chemical used in making plastics containers, might be responsible for impairing many brain functions such as learning and remembering. They also fear that it could be a factor behind Alzhemer’s, Schizophenia and depression.