On Tue, 31 May 2005 21:08, Thomas Bridgeland wrote:

>On Tuesday, May 31, 2005, at 08:50  PM, Keith Thomas wrote:
>
>> The article does not say what sort of contact with the plastic leaches
>> the phthalates into food.  It's my guess (and I'm not a chemist,
>> so it's only a guess) is that fats
>> and oils would be more likely to
>> interact actively with the plastics than, say, fruit and vegetables.
>> Does anyone know if this is so?
>
>darn. I read an article on this a few months ago but now can't remember
>where that was. I do recall that they said that tests showed very
>little (no?) transmission in normal use with cold foods in plastic
>containers. The main source was cling wrap in a microwave. Their advice
>was to microwave using glass bowls and tops, no cling wrap.

Well, I'm in the clear - I gave up the microwave on principle when I switched to palaeo five years
ago.

Keith