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Can Melted Plastic Containers Cause Toxicity If They Are Ingested

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Dr. Hema Yadav MD

plastic top that was melted into a ball and not the plastic wrap I thought I knocked it was. It was just ...I left the plastic top on(without realizing) and put the aluminum container with the... View answer

Answered by : Dr. Hema Yadav ( Pediatrician)
Dr. Rajiv K Khandelwal MD

Ate at a restaurant and when chewing the last piece of my wrap I spit out a piece of melted plastic. Now I am worried if the entire meal was microwaved or put in the oven with plastic that... View answer

Answered by : Dr. Rajiv K Khandelwal ( Pediatrician)
Dr.  T Shobha Deepak MD

I just finished eating dinner and I may have ingested melted plastic. The oven was smoking badly ... plastic in it. I looked in the oven and there was a melted Tupperware bowl that... View answer

Answered by : Dr. T Shobha Deepak ( General & Family Physician)
Dr. Kerry Pottinger MD

I have just had a ready meal. The plastic container totally melted at the top and around the edge ... liquid. I left it to cool and ate the meal but left the edges where the plastic had melted.... View answer

Answered by : Dr. Kerry Pottinger ( Pain Medicine & Palliative Care Specialist)
Dr.  Rakesh Madhyastha MD

I was sous vide some vegetables. After eating them and cleaning my equipment I noticed the plastic from my vacuum sealed bag was melted onto my sous vide heating tool. Should I be concerned about any ... View answer

Answered by : Dr. Rakesh Madhyastha ( Nephrologist)

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Dr.   Phanindra Dulipala MD

Is chicken safe to eat if it was cooking in the oven and there were some black plastic containers in oven? They melted and there was a burning plastic smell and some melting on one... View answer

Answered by : Dr. Phanindra Dulipala ( Diabetologist)
Dr.  Anand M I MD

I may have accidentally breathed in and ingested some melted plastic after leaving a supposedly microwave-safe plate in the microwave. Approximately 5cm2 of plastic melted and there was a... View answer

Answered by : Dr. Anand M I ( General & Family Physician)
Dr.   Parth Goswami MD

underneath the foil portion. We ate the casserole and when I was cleaning up found the plastic lid melted underneath the foil dish. I am concerned we ingested plastic. How worried should I be? ... View answer

Answered by : Dr. Parth Goswami ( General & Family Physician)
Dr.  Parth MD

the bottom of the container had melted. I must have ingested the material I am guessing. Could you please let me know what are the hazards of such ingestion? ... View answer

Answered by : Dr. Parth ( Pathologist and Microbiologist)
Dr. Vaddadi Suresh MD

I was eating the chicken, I noticed that pieces of the plastic coating on the plate had melted. The pieces of the plastic coating were missing and hard where it had dried up. I m scared I may have... View answer

Answered by : Dr. Vaddadi Suresh ( Internal Medicine Specialist)