Are Nalgene water bottles really unsafe?
As someone who always has a Lexan Nalgene bottle of water beside him, I’ve perused a lot of these BPA pages. It seems that the danger comes when you clean the plastic with something harsh like bleach, scratch it abrasively, heat it up to almost melting, or store liquid in it for months on end. Plus, Lexan has to degrade over time before significant amounts of BPA are exuded. For example, most of the research PubMed brings up required the researchers to intentionally damage old laboratory cages, by applying a powerful detergent. Since I keep my Nalgene unbleached, never clean the inside with anything abrasive, wash it out with cold water, and replace it every year or two, I’m not too concerned. Quite frankly, if I’m going to get sick from all the water I drink (64+oz a day), it’s going to be from the myriad trace chemicals in the drinking water supply, not from .01 parts per billion of BPA leeching out of the water’s container. On the other hand, I wouldn’t use a Lexan baby bottle (beca
