Estrogenic chemicals in mineralwater?

According to two ecotoxicologist, plastic mineral water bottles contaminate drinking water with estrogenic chemicals.

Martin Wagner and Jörg Oehlmann from the Department of Aquatic Ecotoxicology at the Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main, analyzed 20 brands of mineral water available in Germany – nine bottled in glass, nine bottled in plastic and two bottled in composite packaging (paperboard boxes coated with an inner plastic film). They detected estrogen contamination in 60 percent of the samples (12 of the 20 brands) analyzed. Mineral waters in glass bottles were less estrogenic than waters in plastic bottles. Specifically, 33 percent of all mineral waters bottled in glass compared with 78 percent of waters in plastic bottles and both waters bottled in composite packaging showed significant hormonal activity.