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Archive Home > 2006 > February > 09 > Fact or Fiction

Fact or Fiction

Freezing water in plastic bottles can release poisonous dioxins


February 9, 2006

Fiction. There are no dioxins in plastics, and even if there were, cold temperatures would be unlikely to release them.

This urban legend has been circulating as an e-mail warning citing research from Johns Hopkins University as proof that it's true. But the school has issued no such warning nor....

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