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Medical Forum / General / General / October 2004how do you sterilize water bottles?
i always fill them with water and freeze them. 1 litre plastic pop bottles. any bugs will be my bugs so i should be immune. does decaying plastic cause cancer? > i always fill them with water and freeze them. 1 litre plastic pop > bottles. any bugs will be my bugs so i should be immune. does decaying > plastic cause cancer? I doubt you can sterilize any of the common plastics (HDPE, PP, PS) by heat, and don't really know any chemical means (though you certainly could disinfect them). Do they have to be sterile, or do you just not want any yucky stuff such as mold growing in them? I occasionally clean my bicycle water bottles and fill them with a dilute bleach (sodium hypochlorite) solution to kill any mildew. Make sure you wash out thoroughly afterwards! Steve > > i always fill them with water and freeze them. 1 litre plastic pop > > bottles. any bugs will be my bugs so i should be immune. does decaying [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > dilute bleach (sodium hypochlorite) solution to kill any mildew. Make > sure you wash out thoroughly afterwards! I just take liquid soap, put a bit in the bottle with some water, put the cap back on and shake. Then I rinse with hot water a few times and once with cold. Jeff > Steve >>>i always fill them with water and freeze them. 1 litre plastic pop >>>bottles. any bugs will be my bugs so i should be immune. does decaying [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] > > Jeff Same here. I only do the bleach thing very occasionally, when things don't look or smell right. I know these days it is not considered wise to heat in plastic containers (apart from the obvious reasons) because some plastics can leach out some plasticizers into the food. This might be what the OP was referring to. I know there was a scare that came out maybe 6 or so years ago when our daughter was very little about plasticizers (phthallates) leaching out of soft plastic toys when young children put them in their mouths. Steve >>Steve > i always fill them with water and freeze them. 1 litre plastic pop > bottles. any bugs will be my bugs so i should be immune. does decaying > plastic cause cancer? I only fill mine 1/2 way. Then I can fill them all the way, and have ice water. Plastic last for years in landfills. And doesn't decay as fast in the freezer where it is dark. No, plastic bottles filled with ice do not cause cancer. Jeff > > i always fill them with water and freeze them. 1 litre plastic pop > > bottles. any bugs will be my bugs so i should be immune. does decaying [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > > Jeff some intelligent posts in this thread. i never even heard about plastic leaching into food. my father died at 50 of leukemia with no history of cancer in family so that makes me wary. i just caught onto the filling halfway and topping up with water. ice cold water tastes better than carbonated sugar water. i guess the cold stimulates the taste buds or something. |
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