I received this e-mail from a friend and would like to know how true is this warning?

Cancer News From Johns Hopkins


No plastics in micro
No water bottles in freezer.
No plastic wrap in micro

Johns Hopkins has recently sent this out in their newsletters worth noting... This information is being circulated at Walter Reed Army Medical Center.

Dioxin Carcinogens cause cancer, especially breast cancer. Don't freeze your plastic water bottles with water as this also releases dioxins in the plastic.

Dr. Edward Fujimoto from Castle hospital was on a TV program explain ning this health hazard. (He is the manager of the Wellness Program at the hospital.)

He was talking about dioxins and how bad they are for us. He said that we should not be heating our food in the microwave using plastic containers.
This applies to foods that contain fat. He said that the combination of fat, high heat and plastics releases dioxins into the food and ultimately into the cells of the body. Dioxins are carcinogens and
highly toxic to the cells of our bodies. Instead, he recommends using glass, Corning Ware, or
ceramic containers for heating food. You get the same results,without the dioxins.

So such things as TV dinners, instant ramen and soups, etc., should be removed from the container and heated in something else. Paper isn't bad but you don't know what is in the paper. It's just safer to use tempered glass, Corning Ware, etc. He said we might remember when some
of the fast food restaurants moved away from the foam containers to paper. The dioxin problem is one of the reasons.

To add to this, Saran wrap placed over foods as they are nuked, with the high heat, actually drips poisonous toxins into the food. Use paper towels.

Pass this on to your family & friends & those that are important in
your life!!!

Well he may be right - to a degree - a degree so minute that its redicous to even try and make news with it...
I suppose that since I started eating TV Dinners when they first came on the market, I probaly only have less than 10 years to live...
Remember, they stated that Peanut Butter will give you cancer and kill you....if you eat 10 pounds a day of it...
As far as I am concerned, reports like that are published by someone who likes to see their name in print....
Remember, eggs and butter are bad for you too !!!

This is false, according to Snopes.com, TruthorFiction.com, and Cornell University.



Dr. Edward Fujimoto is a PhD, the director of the Center for Health Promotion at Castle Medical Center in Kailua, Hawaii. He is not an M.D. In fact, while Dr. Fujimoto did say much of what he is quoted as saying, and stated that his research backs him up, he has refused to show anyone his research. TruthOrFiction.com has twice asked for him to give us that research but has never received it.

Shirley Blakely at FDA's Center for Food Safety and Nutrition (CFSAN) consulted with her colleagues and no one can substantiate the e-mailed information. Her colleague, Dr. Ed Machuga, Consumer Safety Officer at CFSAN, wrote: "We have no evidence that plastic containers can produce dioxins when heated in microwave oven. In fact, most, if not all, plastics containers would not even have the correct chemical composition to form dioxins." - Cornell Cooperative Extension, Cornell University

However ,the clingfilm ( sarin wrap? ), the stretchy film to cover food containers, used to be the subject of warnings in the UK, I'm sure. Only some grades were to be used in microwaves because of the risk of carcinogens being produced by the others. We used to see that some film was labelled as microwave safe and others labelled as not for use in microwave ovens. I can't recall seeing this in recent years so either all is now safe, the other kinds being not made, or the original warning was based on error.

Anybody else remember that kind of warning?