Toxic Antimony and Plastic Water Bottles
Published: 13 March 2006
Category: PET (polyethylene terephthalate), Packaging CONCERNS
Food Production Daily reports (3/14/06) on the dangers of polyethylene terephthalate (PET) water bottles, saying that trace amounts of a “little-researched” toxic metal, antimony, have been found in plastic water bottles across Europe and Canada. Researchers from the University of Heidelberg in Germany suspect that plastic water bottles contain up to 30 times more antimony than water packaged in glass.