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Can Consuming Food Cooked In A Plastic Container That Melted In Microwave Cause Cancer?

I bought a roasted chicken from Whole Foods and at home I made the dumb mistake to put it in the oven in the same black plastic container without the lid. I thought it was fine because it said it was microwavable safe. After a while I realized that the container melted in the outside. I pulled it out and saw that the chicken was fine and served it for dinner to my daughter and myself.
I am now concern from what I have read in other websites that it can cause some health issues such as cancer. Could that be the case from just one time?
Mon, 20 Jan 2014
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Welcome to HCM
We understand your concerns

I went through your details. I suggest you not to worry much. Our body knows how to throw out the things which it do not need. Digestive system is very powerful. Things goes into the stomach when we eat. Immediately on finding something strange in the food, stomach reacts and throws it through vomiting. Second option is diarrhea. Colic etc. Third, our liver disintegrates any toxins and removes them through sweat and urine. Means we have our own defence. Melted plastic, should come out through your digestive waste.

Cancer means malignant tissues. That hppens when there is some sort of malignant tissues inside like gangrene or so. Continuous intake of plastic could cause cancer.That is all. Once or twice is not a problem. Take a deep brreath.

Hope this answers your query. Available for further clarifications.
Good luck.
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Can Consuming Food Cooked In A Plastic Container That Melted In Microwave Cause Cancer?

Dear Welcome to HCM We understand your concerns I went through your details. I suggest you not to worry much. Our body knows how to throw out the things which it do not need. Digestive system is very powerful. Things goes into the stomach when we eat. Immediately on finding something strange in the food, stomach reacts and throws it through vomiting. Second option is diarrhea. Colic etc. Third, our liver disintegrates any toxins and removes them through sweat and urine. Means we have our own defence. Melted plastic, should come out through your digestive waste. Cancer means malignant tissues. That hppens when there is some sort of malignant tissues inside like gangrene or so. Continuous intake of plastic could cause cancer.That is all. Once or twice is not a problem. Take a deep brreath. Hope this answers your query. Available for further clarifications. Good luck.