From: http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/consumer072700.asp
"Waters bottled in a clear, strong plastic called polyethylene terephthalate (PET or PETE, for short) generally tasted better than those bottled in HDPE, the cheaper, high-density polyethylene that is the opaque, flexible material of milk containers. That was true even within the same brand: One spring water we tested was very good when bottled in PET, which imparted a hint of sweet, fruity plastic, but was merely fair when bottled in HDPE, which made it taste a bit like melted plastic." On 30 Aug 2001, at 0:46, Frank Key wrote: > A virgin PETE bottle imparts no such flavor to water stored in it. It also > adds no measurable ionic content to pure DI water (0.1 uS/cm conductivity) > which is stored for many months. Any substance that would be given off by > the plastic would tend to increase the conductivity measurement of the > pure water. _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com -- The silver-list is a moderated forum for discussion of colloidal silver. To join or quit silver-list or silver-digest send an e-mail message to: [email protected] -or- [email protected] with the word subscribe or unsubscribe in the SUBJECT line. To post, address your message to: [email protected] Silver-list archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html List maintainer: Mike Devour <[email protected]>
