Do plastics release DEHA, and is it harmful?
DEHA is a chemical found in some plastics. The email claims about DEHA are based on the work of an American student who supposedly showed this chemical can migrate from plastic wraps into food at high temperatures. However, this work was never published, and there is no convincing evidence that DEHA is actually present in plastic bottles or plastic wraps. Even if it was, in the late 1990s, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) removed DEHA from its list of toxic chemicals. It said that DEHA “cannot reasonably be anticipated to cause cancer” as well as a number of other health problems.
