Information on the "Plastic and Cancer" scare?

[alamahara]

What are the facts regarding some plastic and their chemicles giving people cancer?

[seanmarson]

The study links the compound to the development of hormone sensitive tissue in mice and has prompted environmental campaigners to call for far tighter regulation of such chemicals.

Experiments at Tufts University School of Medicine in Boston, Massachusetts, have potentially worrying implications for human health since they suggest mammary glands of female mice grow in a way that makes them more likely to develop breast cancer and also to respond unusually to oestrogen, which fuels most breast cancer in humans.

Read the story below:

[kathy_is_a_nurse]

I know I have read of studies where plastic wrap that is kept on foods while being microwaved have been shown to "leach" carcinogens into the food. To put it into perspective, carcinogens don't automatically give a person cancer, but enough of them in your system predispose (increase the risk) you to cancer. Obviously, it makes sense to avoid getting as many carcinogens in you as possible... thus improving your odds of NOT getting cancer.