Could your Nalgene bottle give you cancer?

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To better understand the health hazards of food containers one must first understand the manufacturing process. The hazards of Nalgene products were discovered due to a better understanding of their manufacturing processes.

With continued focus on this issue and review of manufacturing of alternatives to Nalgene products, reveals similar concerns.

The lead content of stainless steel products activated by heat and cold extremes reveals that they are as safe as eating the chipped paint from a 1930's home. Resorting to glass or porcelain products exposes the user to formaldehyde levels of a pickled high school frog.

As a molecular engineer from California Institute of Technology at Pasadena, I fear that my duty to inform consumers nationwide of the fraud that is being perpetrated in replacing one hazardous material with another.

5-29-2009 @ 5:54PM

swemerica said...

Hi JSinclair3000:

I agree with you 100%, which is the reason I am currently researching SAFE alternatives to plastic (not just Nalgene) bottles. And, I have had exactly the same concern as you're pointing out with stainless steel bottles. And, aluminum is not better + they are lined with resin (yet another harmful plastic material). I thus, as much as possible try to use glass, but that's not 100% safe either. And, most bottles you by, no matter material, have plastic, or silicone, on the inside of the cap. Soooo, as you have studied these things, what would you recommend as being the lesser of multiple evils, and hence the safest (albeit, of course not 100% safe) material for portable water bottles? Please advice!

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