When plastic heats up it outgasses these toxic chemicals into your food. I got rid of my Tupperware and all plastic because of that. I always feel bad for people who aren't aware of this when I see them use plastic containers to nuke food in. They've linked Phthalates (thal-ates JL53563 ) to several cancers, birth defects and lowered sperm count. I can't believe the stuff is still on the market. It's the cheap way to make plastic, but toxic. I've been noticing the plastic industry doing PR ads saying how we couldn't live without it, what they don't say is that it could be made from crops like corn and not petroleum and we wouldn't get the nasty stuff like Phthalates...
---------->steps off soap box. Can you tell I used to work in Environmental Medicine?