A report recently published online claims that contaminants found in commercially available mineral water may partly originate from compounds leaching from plastic packaging. The report, written by Martin Wagner & Jorg Oehlmann of Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt, is based on a study analysing bottled mineral water with the human oestrogen receptor alpha.
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Journal Title
Glass Int April 2009 8
Sector
Container glass
Class
C 3926