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More wired clickbait bs. It boils down to “don’t microwave plastics that aren’t microwave safe” What a fucking revelation
That's literally NOT what it's saying? They literally are saying, verbatim, that they don't think ANY plastic we know of is microwave safe. Are you dumb or intentionally trying to mislead people?
Yes.
Here’s the academic study published this year.
If you don’t have academic credentials to log in (and I suspect you don’t), LPT you can email or tweet the study’s authors and they’ll happily send you access for free.
e: a key takeaway: ‘Furthermore, an in vitro study conducted to assess the cell viability showed that the extracted microplastics and nanoplastics released from the plastic container can cause the death of 76.70 and 77.18% of human embryonic kidney cells (HEK293T) at 1000 μg/mL concentration after exposure of 48 and 72 h, respectively.’
Just to add more emphasis, they'll happily send it because they often just as (if not significantly more) pissed at the systems in place to keep academic papers out of public circulation so corporations can pocket the money.
I hate Wired as much as the next Zippie, but they’re just passing on the info here. And what plastics are microwave safe?
That’s right, Bubba. Doughnut. Goose-egg. Nada
The main plastic the article calls into question is polypropylene. I've got bad news for you. Its used frequently in microwavable food products and sold as "microwave safe". Polypropylene is recycle symbol #5.
Here's a perfect example. That cup of rice is #5 plastic, polypropylene. You can see the package says right on it "Microwave for one minute". This isn't the only product I've seen with a polypropylene container. Here's another one for BBQ pulled porkyou can even see on the package itself in the bottom right hand corner at the recycling symbol it says its polypropylene. And if you look at the preparation instructions it gives microwave directions.
I can't speak to the science in the article, but it certainly is talking about a plastic that consumers are regularly told is safe to microwave.
@thorbot definitely didn’t read the article