[twet.me]

Hi Scientist

I have a big problem, and i hope all of You can help me to solve it.
Can the plastic degrade or migrate to food when we cook them together. In my case the plastic is boilled with rice and water, the temperature approximatelly 80 to 100 degree Celcius.

I have told my friend about the dangerous of plastic, but i cant help more cause i'm not scientist and i do not have the data to make it clear.

For your information the food will be sale food store when ready.

Please give me some advice for helping people.

[Borek]

You are asking as if there were only kind of plastic, or as if all kinds of plastic had the same properties. Some kinds of plastic will survive heating to these temperatures without traces of decomposition, some will not.

You are right that some plastics can degrade and the degradation products are poisonous/harming.

[Corribus]

In the US, anything that touches food must be shown to be safe (under intended conditions of use) before it is legal to market. Therefore any commercial food package that you buy in the store has a reasonable certainty - based on available scientific knowledge - of causing no harm, provided you are using the packaging as intended.

Of course, if you are using a package not as intended (heating something in an oven that should be heated in a microwave, say) or are using a container not in which the food was originally purchased (using that container that you bought one of your kid's toys in), then you are on your own. Although my personal opinion is that most good quality food storage containers are probably OK to use under mild heating conditions (e.g., microwaving your lunch).