{"id":26241,"date":"2009-03-30T18:53:34","date_gmt":"2009-03-30T18:53:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2009\/03\/30\/it-may-not-be-safe-to-drink-th\/"},"modified":"2009-03-30T18:53:34","modified_gmt":"2009-03-30T18:53:34","slug":"it-may-not-be-safe-to-drink-th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/30\/it-may-not-be-safe-to-drink-th\/","title":{"rendered":"It may not be safe to drink the water"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Polycarbonate water bottles have received plenty of bad press for releasing potentially toxic compounds into unsuspecting drinkers, but there may be another culprit: everyday plastic packaging.<\/p>\n<p>A German study of commercially-available bottled water found contamination by chemicals that mimic natural sex hormones. When the researchers raised snails in the water, they bred with extreme rapidity &#8212; a warning sign that the chemicals were active. Contamination levels were twice as high in brands packaged in plastic instead of glass, suggesting that plastic was the culprit.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.wired.com\/wiredscience\/2009\/03\/plastichormone.html\">Wired Science<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Polycarbonate water bottles have received plenty of bad press for releasing potentially toxic compounds into unsuspecting drinkers, but there may be another culprit: everyday plastic packaging. A German study of commercially-available bottled water found contamination by chemicals that mimic natural sex hormones. When the researchers raised snails in the water, they bred with extreme rapidity &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/30\/it-may-not-be-safe-to-drink-th\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">It may not be safe to drink the water<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5020],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-6Pf","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26241"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26241\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}