Hormone-mimics In Plastic Water Bottles Act As Functional Estrogens Further to the publicity about the dangers of babies formula plastic feeding bottles there is new research about xeno – estrogens in plastic drinking bottles. Yvonne Bishop-Weston Nutritionist London says “One solution is to get your own water filter – save money, as a small plastic bottle of water can be a rediculous amount of money – use a glass or metal lined thermos flask and avoid the contamination from plastic by drinking from a glass.” More venus are now offering free filtered drinking water – such as Tibits in Heddon Street Piccadilly London. Martin Wagner and Jörg Oehlmann from the Department of Aquatic Ecotoxicology at the Goethe University in Frankfurt, Germany, claim plastic mineral water bottles contaminate drinking water with estrogenic chemicals. In an analysis of commercially available mineral waters, the researchers found evidence of estrogenic compounds leaching out of the plastic packaging into the water. Their findings, which show that substances leaching out of plastic food packaging materials act as functional estrogens, are published in Springer’s journal Environmental Science and Pollution Research

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