Plastics - Safe or Not?

My sister forwarded an email to me saying not to drink water from bottles that have been sitting in a hot car. The e-mail makes reference to Sheryl Crow getting cancer this way, and that the hot water bottles are apparently more toxic for women. I don't know about that, but I do know many plastics, especially water bottles, are harmful to drink from.

Snopes calls this an urban legend, but I have been hearing for a long time now about how plastics are unsafe. Who do we believe? Are we all wrong? Where do we get the best information ? We are all so good at using Google, but how do we know the information we gather is correct?! This is what is frustrating about the Internet.

The hot plastic supposedly leaches cancer causing chemicals into the water. Hot or not, I thought that most plastic water bottles leach chemicals and that many other plastics do, too. I have just found out that the Gladware I was using to freeze Liberty's food also leaches (according to an article I read). I did not know that. I always heat up the food in a porcelain ramekin that I send to school.

I think I posted at one time about levels of a chemical called BPA that is unsafe for all of us and is found in common plastics. You definitely should not microwave in plastic. We have been hearing this for a long time now on television shows and newscasts.

Here is a website that helps explain the harmful BPA's and what kind of materials to use, what plastics are safe, etc. I think we can trust the website...but who knows for sure?! Someone email me!

Here are the bottles I use for Liberty that we love so much: http://www.kleankanteen.com/ I know I can trust stainless steel...I think.