Plastic containers pose health risks for children, pediatricians warn
Physicians with the American Academy of Pediatrics are warning of the risk to children when eating food that has been microwaved in plastic containers. In 2016, Fulton Schools Professor Rolf Halden, director of ASU’s Center for Environmental Health Engineering, had already been cautioning that even plastic containers labeled microwave-safe can pose health problems when chemicals used to make the containers migrate into food.
