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I found this interview on the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health website. It confronts a few rumors that have been going around via email that warn against freezing water in plastic bottles. The rumors state that if you freeze water in a plastic bottle, you will be exposed to carcinogenic dioxins. According to Rolf Halden, PhD, PE, professor at Johns Hopkins University, this is not true.

“There seems to be a growing body of evidence in scientific literature, data and studies coming out of many different organizations – the World Health Organization, the National Institute for Health - even JAMA is producing more and more studies showing how environmental toxins are effecting our health in addition to our nutritional status.

“This is leading to Americans becoming more and more aware of how eating organic food is important to them or, conversely, not eating food that’s laced with pesticides, which act as endocrine disruptors and can effect a hormonal imbalance within one’s body.

Water is necessary for life, so it's a wonder that it's treated with such disregard. What flows from the tap at home is often polluted with some form of pesticide, industrial chemical, pharmaceutical drug, or other toxin - even after it's passed through a treatment facility.