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Plastic bottles harmful for health
Apr 19 2008, Arpita Mukherjee

Has the time arrived for us to move back to the old glass containers as new studies are showing that plastic bottles can cause immense harm to our body? Bisphenol A or BPA, a polycarbonate plastic material that is used in making plastic bottles can...

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