Re: Please read- Hoax e-mail

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I did not copy the entire orginal post because its long. But a quick search will reveal this is yet another one of those Hoax e-mails that has been circulating the internet. I have included the link to Hoax Busters with is an excellent site to check out e-mails..especially chain letter type e-mails such as this.

Here is the website for hoax busters:

http://hoaxbusters.ciac.org/cgi-bin/mfs/www/hoaxbusters/archive?link=http://hoaxbusters.ciac.org/HBInconsequential.shtml & file=/www/hoaxbusters/HBInconsequential.shtml & line=724#mfs

Here is an actual copy of what was said on Hoaxbusters:

Plastic Wrap Toxins Warning

July 2002 This one is a little more complicated. It actually consists of two separate warnings that were running around the Internet separately and were then combined into one. The second story actually appears first in the combined warning and describes the experiments of a 7th grader named who was looking at leaching DEHA out of plastic wrap and into food during heating in a microwave. The story was taken from an Associated Press article by Lehourites in April of 2000. A CNews article published in Canada also discusses 's work. According to that article, her research was done with the help of an FDA scientist. She found that if you cook plastic wrap in olive oil that a small but significant amount of DEHA leaches out into the oil. The second article was taken from a TV interview of Dr. Fujimoto on KHON in Hawaii in January 2002. This article has numerous errors, including the location of the hospital and the insinuation that Dr. Fujimoto is an MD (He is actually a Ph.D.). He was expressing his concern that heating foods in inappropriate containers could expose people to Dioxin. DEHA is a plasticizer that us added to plastics to make them soft. Exposure to high levels of plasticizers is known to cause health problems including cancer so it is a good idea to limit your exposure. Dioxins are a definite health risk and they are known to build up in the body over time so it is also a good idea to limit your exposure to them as well. However the exposure to dioxins from eating food heated in plastics is very small compared to the exposure from burning plastics. So is this a huge health risk that we should warn everyone about? Probably not. If you follow the FDA advice on heating foods in the microwave you should not be at any significant risk.

Only use cookware that is specially manufactured for use in the microwave oven. Glass, ceramic containers, and all plastics should be labeled for microwave oven use.

Plastic storage containers such as margarine tubs, take-out containers, whipped topping bowls, and other one-time use containers should not be used in microwave ovens. These containers can warp or melt, possibly causing harmful chemicals to migrate into the food.

Microwave plastic wraps, wax paper, cooking bags, parchment paper, and white microwave-safe paper towels should be safe to use. Do not let plastic wrap touch foods during microwaving.

Never use thin plastic storage bags, brown paper or plastic grocery bags, newspapers, or aluminum foil in the microwave oven.

A very good review of this warning is available on the urbanlegends.com website. Plastic Wrap Toxins. Author/s: Jule Klotter Issue: Jan, 2001

As a seventh grade student, learned that

di(ethylhexyl)adepate (DEHA), considered a carcinogen, is found in

plastic wrap. She also learned that the FDA had never studied the

effect of microwave cooking on plastic-wrapped food. began to

wonder: "Can cancer-causing particles seep into food covered with

household plastic wrap while it is being microwaved?"

Three years later, with encouragement from her high school science

teacher, set out to test what the FDA had not. Although she had

an idea for studying the effect of microwave radiation on

plastic-wrapped food, she did not have the equipment. Eventually, Jon

Wilkes at the National Center for Toxicological Research in Jefferson,

Arkansas, agreed to help her. The research center, which is affiliated

with the FDA, let her use its facilities to perform her experiments,

which involved microwaving plastic wrap in virgin olive oil.

tested four different plastic wraps and "found not just the carcinogens

but also xenoestrogen was migrating [into the oil]...." Xenoestrogens

are linked to low sperm counts in men and to breast cancer in women.

Throughout her junior and senior years, made a couple of trips

each week to the research center, which was 25 miles from her home, to

work on her experiment. An article in Options reported that "her

analysis found that DEHA was migrating into the oil at between 200 parts

and 500 parts per million. The FDA standard is 0.05 parts per billion."

Her summarized results have been published in science journals.

received the American Chemical Society's top science prize for

students during her junior year and fourth place at the International

Science and Engineering Fair (Fort Worth, Texas) as a senior.

"Carcinogens -- At 10,000,000 Times FDA Limits" Options

May 2000. Published by People Against Cancer, 515-972-4444

On Channel 2 (Huntsville, AL) this morning they had a Dr.

Fujimoto from Castle Hospital on the program. He is the manager of the

Wellness Program at the hospital. He was talking about dioxins and how

bad they are for us. He said that we should not be heating our food in

the microwave using plastic containers. This applies to foods that

contain fat. He said that the combination of fat, high heat and plastics

releases dioxins into the food and ultimately into the cells of the

body. Dioxins are carcinogens and highly toxic to the cells of our

bodies. Instead, he recommends using glass, Corning Ware, or ceramic

containers for heating food. You get the same results without the

dioxins. So such things as TV dinners, instant saimin and soups, etc.,

should be removed from the container and heated in something else.

Paper isn't bad but you don't know what is in the paper. Just safer to

use tempered glass, Corning Ware, etc. He said we might remember when

some of the fast food restaurants moved away from the foam containers to

paper. The dioxin problem is one of the reasons.

Pass this on to your friends....

To add to this: Saran wrap placed over foods as they are nuked, with the

high heat, actually drips poisonous toxins into the food. Use paper

towel instead.

In a message dated 4/13/04 9:55:17 AM Central Daylight Time, Rheumatoid Arthritis writes:

Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2004 12:08:13 EDT

From: lucyoo1@...

Subject: Please read

s Hopkins has recently sent this out in their newsletters...worth

noting... Dioxin Carcinogens causes cancer. Especially breast cancer.

Don't freeze your plastic water bottles with water (as we do with the water

we take to the golf course, nr) as this also releases dioxin in the plastic.