Hope this is the right place to put this post.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/11/health/11cancer.html?_r=1&src=me&ref=health
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/11/health/11cancer.html?_r=1&src=me&ref=health
Styrene Might cause Cancer?!?
- Thread starter TimEwers
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RabidAlien
1st Lieutenant
Well, I try to avoid eating my styrene plates and cups, and ingest "pickling" agents other than formaldehyde, so I'd say I'm purty safe. Pretty much everything, they're going to find out, will cause cancer. Still, every time I see a commercial where someone says "caused cancer in lab rats", I feel like writing them and telling them to stop giving the stuff to the dam rats!
Catch22
Major
Since you're a modeler Tim, and I assume that's your main concern with this, I would imagine it's along the same lines as plastic forks etc, that it's very slight and not really worth worrying about.
N4521U
Plastic Pirate
It would have to be liquified in order to ingest it! Utherwise it would cut the bejesus out of your insides! I'd rather eat peanut butter myself.
N4521U
Plastic Pirate
Only the High Density stuff!
B-17engineer
Colonel
evangilder
"Shooter"
It might make you larger, but lighter. They use it in boats and life jackets, so you'll get real big, but when you get in the water, you'll float like a cork.
Seriously though, I remember many years ago when they suggested burning styrofoam cups could release carcinogens. I rarely use them anyway, and usually for drinking out of, not burning.
vikingBerserker
Lieutenant General
You cant eat it now??? Dammit, there goes another hobby!
Airframes
Benevolens Magister
Hmm. Does this mean that a well-known 'fast food' outlet will have to find something else to make their burgers out of ?
vikingBerserker
Lieutenant General
