Science News / Bottled Water May Contain ‘hormones’: Glass

Science News / Bottled Water May Contain ‘hormones’: Glass: "Polyvinyl chloride tubing, for instance, is widely used by industry. So if mineral water were pumped through PVC piping it could pick up bisphenol-A, organotin and phthalates — “because [PVC] is a source of all those,” notes Shanna Swan, an environmental epidemiologist at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry. And, she adds, all of these materials that have been found in PVC have an estrogenic alter ego."