Where on earth would estrogen come from? Polyethylene is made from a catalytic reaction using pure ethylene gas and certain metals. Pure polyethylene is formed by this process. Estrogen is a completely different compound, with elements that are not even fund in ethylene.
However I have read that plasticizers can mimic estrogen if I remember right. Perhaps you are talking about those. There should be no plasticizers in hdpe, it has a transition temperature just over 200 F, and is thus flexible without it. But I do know that plasticizers have been known to be added to hdpe, although they should not. I suspect that it may be a case of recycled plastic being added to the mix, and some non hdpe inadvertantly being added that had plasticizers in it. But I have no documentation on that. Marshall Christine Carleton wrote: > Marshall & Deborah, > >From what I understand, milk jugs leach estrogen into the contents. > One has to go to a higher grade of plastic to prevent the leaching. > Christine > > > From: Marshall Dudley <mdud...@king-cart.com> > > Reply-To: silver-list@eskimo.com > > Date: Wed, 26 May 2004 11:10:04 -0400 > > Subject: Re: CS>leaching plastics > > > Gallon Milk jugs should not leach, they are made from high density > > polyethylene, which requires no plasticizers at all. > > > > Marshall > > > > DByron wrote: > >> The gallon plastic jugs that most distilled water is sold in looks very > >> much like the standard milk jugs that leach. I wonder if we should be > >> storing purchased distilled water in something else as well. Deborah > > -- > The Silver List is a moderated forum for discussing Colloidal Silver. > > Instructions for unsubscribing are posted at: http://silverlist.org > > To post, address your message to: silver-list@eskimo.com > Silver List archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html > > Address Off-Topic messages to: silver-off-topic-l...@eskimo.com > OT Archive: http://escribe.com/health/silverofftopiclist/index.html > > List maintainer: Mike Devour <mdev...@eskimo.com>
