Takeout Coffee Cups May Be Messing With Your Hormones

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That Takeout Coffee Cup May Be Messing With Your Hormones

 

There are new studies the suggest highly used plastics, including BPA-free plastics release estogenic chemicals. These released chemicals are in Styrofoam  which means they could be in your to-go coffee cups. This is a great reason to brew your coffee at home, and if you need to take some coffee with you forget the plastic, use a Stainless Steel Travel Mug. There are many other products that contain these chemicals that are marketed as safe, BPA free that still leak these chemical and they are described for you below.

The study also looked at three different types of Tritan—a novel plastic marketed as a safe, estrogen-free alternative to BPA-laden polycarbonate—and found that all of them leached estrogen-like chemicals.

That’s bad news for consumers, given that hundreds of household products are made from Tritan. Below are some examples, with the caveat that not all of these finished products have been specifically tested for estrogenic effects:

  • CamelBak Eddy Kid’s BPA-free water bottle

  • CamelBak Relay water filtering pitcher

  • Foogo by Thermos sippy cups

  • Hamilton Beach Multi-Blend blender

  • Nalgene BPA-free water bottles (color matters; see the chart below)

  • OXO Good Grips LockTop food-storage containers

  • Rubbermaid Hydration Chug bottles

  • Rubbermaid carafes

  • Rubbermaid Premier food-storage containers

  • Thermos Under Armour water bottles

  • Weil Baby bottles

  • Weil Baby sippy cups

  • Whole Foods bulk bins

SRC: Read more about how Takeout Coffee Cups May Be Messing With Your Hormones at: www.motherjones.com/environment/2014/11/tritan-bpa-free-plastic-styrofoam-estrogen