This info is good to know!
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 micro waved?”
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 micro waving
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 “her 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 On Channel 2
(Huntsville,
AL) this morning they had a Dr. Edward Fujimoto from Castle Hospital on
the
program.
He 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.Pass this on to your friends…
To add to this: Saran wrap placed over foods as they are nuked, with the
high heat, actually drips poisonous toxins into the food.Use paper towels instead.
That was a good info and you should forward it to TC at Reader Mail. Do you have the URL for the article or did you write that yourself?
I don’t have the URL . .have written articles but not this one 
Actually forwarded to me.
There’s been lots of research in this field . .the health food industry openly “assumes” these conditions and it’s a given to avoid . .we tend to treat it as more groundbreaking and new
Stay healthy
Mike D
I stopped microwaving food in plastic a few years ago. I used to do water testing (USP testing on WFI) for a biotech company. The samples from the hot loop used to fail. I did a few unofficial experiments on my own. I concluded that the hot water was leaching compounds from various types of plastics, while it wouldn’t leach anything from glass. Also, samples that were tested for organic carbon had to be sampled in glass because plastic would contaminate the sample. I never investigated what compounds were going into the water, I just fixed the problem. I then stopped microwaving my food in plastic. I reasoned that hot water would leach compounds into my food. This became particularly unnerving when I learned that xenoestrogens were in plastic.