Dr. Cassandra Rauert

Even if we don't have...

a good understanding on potential health implications from exposure to plastics, I still think it's a good idea to be cautious about them and reduce the amount of plastics that we're exposed to wherever you can.

Plastics

are not just a polymer.

They're not just a physical thing.

They actually also have a lot of chemicals.

We call these plastic additive chemicals.

They're chemicals like phthalates or bisphenol A that people may have heard of.

And these are endocrine disruptors.

And we do have really good data on associations between exposure to these chemicals and negative health effects.

So even if we don't understand...

potential health effects from plastics exposure, we do know that there's a lot of negative health effects from these chemicals like phthalates and bisphenols.

So from that point of view, I think it's a good reason to be reducing your plastics exposure because you do then also reduce your exposure to these chemicals.