• Duranie@lemmy.film
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      1 year ago

      Serious question.

      Following the assumption that it’s not food safe plastic, what is the actual risk that we’re talking about here? I get that there’s many variables (length of time/temp of contact, porousness and moisture content of food, etc) but let’s say that the variety of foods were stored in a cooler for 4 hours prior to consumption. To do this 3x a year, what are the risks? Obviously this set up left in the car during the summer for 8hrs before eating would be a REALLY bad idea, but wondering where it starts crossing the line from insignificant risk to “you should really think twice.”

      I remember years ago Mythbusters tested the “5 second rule” and contamination really had much more to do with what was making contact vs how long.

      • danwardvs@sh.itjust.works
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        1 year ago

        Considering the amount of plastic beverage bottles, food packaging, styrofoam, etc that you’ve eaten from in the past X years (think of changing regulations like BPA before 2008-09) , this isn’t going to harm you if you do it occasionally.

        I am not a doctor.

        • mouserat@discuss.tchncs.de
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          also even now, you maybe do not have BPA anymore but BPS instead, which seems to have similar properties but it’s not as famous