Thursday, January 21, 2010

Beware! These plastic products may be carcinogenic

As a new type of plastic material, with lightweight, waterproof, durable, and low cost, is widely used around the world each year and showed growth. China is the world's top ten plastic products production and consumption states. In our daily lives, plastic products almost everywhere, we have become accustomed to turning a blind eye level. But they brought us harm, some we know, some we are not clear.
  
Cheap plastic daily necessities
  
Plastic chair, basin, plastic barrels, plastic bowls and other daily necessities of life common in the wholesale market or corner store, often you can see these colorful plastic daily necessities, and the price is very cheap and very popular. However, few people are aware that some cheap plastic daily necessities, its sources of raw materials turned out to be some dirty recycling plastic encounter some products produced at high temperatures or even harmful substances cause cancer.
  
According to experts, a number of "three no" daily use of plastic garbage plastic as raw material, but only after a simple grinding process, its easy decomposition of PVC contained in the processing of the production process into hydrogen chloride, a carcinogenic to humans and cause abnormal, mutagenic potential hazards.
  
Experts recommend: the best to the regular shopping malls, supermarkets, shopping plastic daily necessities. When you purchase, the most simple and direct way is to smell a smell there is no smell. If it is made from recycled plastic things, and has a strong pungent taste; the same time depends on the transparency and finish plastic commodity, transmission and poor or spots, aerosol, air bubble and so on, then the raw materials containing impurities; In addition, to observe its toughness , qualified plastic daily necessities hand inward pressure, not excessive deformation.
  
Loaded plastic bags of food
  
Street snack bar the use of plastic bags of food is very common, with plastic bags stuffed buns, steamed bread, Hanamaki, Liang Pi, cold noodles, etc. in a convenient and save trouble. And in some food and beverage outlets, but also often see a plastic bag over a bowl of hot soup or fried rice with just one pan, it was directly into the diners eat, these bowls replace plastic bags, to continue to use seems clean, but also saved a lot of trouble.
  
Experts point out that the current street snack or part of the food and beverage outlets to use plastic bags of food, a considerable quantity of recycled PVC plastic, in itself contains serious excessive bacteria, while in the food temperature exceeds 50 degrees Celsius, the plastic bags in the will also lead into the food material to produce poly diphenyl, triphenyl carcinogenic substances such as polyethylene, easy to cause vomiting, diarrhea and other symptoms of food poisoning, a long time, and also lead to chronic poisoning of people, very serious physical health the consequences of the impact of development on children's health is particularly prominent.
  
Experts recommend: the use of food bags must be selective when used with caution. Purchase of cooked food, snacks and other foods directly to the entrance, it is best own cutlery or using a standard plastic grocery bag, and let the temperature of food from bags; out eating utensils should be bagged refuse to take the initiative, in real need, we must look at plastic bags, whether there is "food with" signs.
  
Flavors of plastic slippers
  
During the hot summer, plastic slippers that people essential for daily use. A lot of plastic slippers are fashionable and cheap, but emitting a pungent odor, people dizzy. This must be careful to buy shoes.
  
Experts told reporters that the smell of plastic slippers, mostly because the materials used in the "PVC" This kind of chemicals or added some elements of the recovery of waste do not know, therefore emit hydrogen chloride gas, in addition to offensive, but also to the people's eyes and respiratory tract mucosa produced a strong stimulus can cause headache, nausea, skin allergies and other symptoms, or even damage people's liver and bones,
  
Carcinogenic nature of the impact on human health is very great.
  
Experts suggest: Skin allergies best not to wear plastic slippers, cloth slippers, bamboo slippers and sandals made of natural materials are a good choice. Buy plastic sandals, try not to buy a pungent odor of slippers, in addition, it is necessary to observe the color of slippers, the slippers are too bright often adding too much pigment, which pigment often contain lead, cadmium and other heavy metals, great harm on the human body.
  
Plastic bottles containing BPA
  
BPA, also known as bisphenol A, is one of widely used industrial compounds, to join the substance of plastic products usually have light, drop resistance and other properties, it is widely used in baby bottles, compact discs, food containers and other plastic products manufacturing. With regard to BPA could harm children's health, saying a long time.
  
U.S. National Toxicology Program Office, the BPA on fetuses, infants and children, the potential level of hazard warning as "a little concern", infants and young children suspected of BPA penetrated the body, it will undermine the hormones, causing gene mutation, resulting in girls, precocious puberty, or fertility decline in mental disorders. April 15, 2008, the U.S. government health agencies released a report, "The BPA-containing plastic bottle often may lead to cancer and other disorders." The Government of Canada immediately announced that it would ban the import and sale of baby bottles containing BPA, some U.S. Retailers also consider sale of certain plastic products containing BPA.
  
Expert Recommendation: Under normal circumstances, BPA when the substance is possible in the heating deposition of harmful substances, the parents need not panic too much. If you really nervous, parents can choose to use glass bottles or BPA free plastic bottles. Identification of BPA plastic bottles, to carefully review the instructions and packaging, can also be found at the bottom of that plastic bottle, or recycling triangle, if the number inside the triangle is 7, then it must contain BPA

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