BHT & BHA in Tupperware and natural animal feeds

[Guest guest]

A member of our local WPF group posted this to our site and gave

permission to cut and paste it. I had never heard of plastics

containing BHT and BHA so I figured many others also hadn't. She is

very, very reactive to petrochemicals and cannot even tolerate

eating animal products that have been fed feed with artificial

vitamins in them. I think this is very relavant stuff so I posted

two of her e-mails. This long but worth the read.

Lynn

" Because the added vitamins of Vitamin A and D contain BHT & BHA

which are powerful petrochemicals that then get in the milk which I

then react to because I am sensitive to petrochemicals. Any

processed man-made concoction has additives in the additives that

don't have to be on any label. The BHT & BHA are considered

secondary additives and do not have to be listed on the ingredient

label and ARE NOT EVER listed on the ingredient label. AND yes,

store bought cereals that have Vit. A & D added do not have to list

BHT & BHA in the Vit A & D. This is also the case for alfalfa

pellets with added vitamins. Alfalfa pellets, even without any added

vitamins, are heated at ultra high temperatures to get it to stick

together that it can have little food value left, and any ultra

heated food is suspect having gone through chemical changes which

makes it carcinogenic and disease producing.

" Go ahead and cut and paste and cross post, that is fine with me. As

for my

source, when I first began having problems reacting to food

additives, I

would eliminate additives and I had some great success cutting out

reactions. However, I would still have problems with some foods that

seemed

to be ok. About that time I joined the Feingold Association which

follows

the research of Dr. Ben Feingold. He did research on food additives

and

children suffering from hyperactivity, bed wetting and a number of

other

symptoms. Through this Association, a LOT of mysteries were cleared

up for

me.

Here is one of the weirdest mysteries that was disclosed through the

Feingold Association. In the mid-eighties, I went on a ski trip to

Colorado, lived in Nebraska at that time. I make all my foods ahead

of

time, roast beef and baked stuff and bought organic veggies and

fruits. I

packed it all in Tupperware and off to the mountains. Well, the

first day I

got a splitting, pounding headache, very fast pulse and very

disturbed

sleep. By the second day I was worse and by the third day, was not

sleeping

at all, very fast pulse and bouts of heart palpitations, constant

pounding

headache and more. Back home from the trip, went to the Feingold

meeting

about 2 weeks later and discussed my horrible reactions from eating

only the

foods that I had careful selected and prepared. Our Nebraska chapter

Feingold president asked me what I packaged my foods in. When I

answered

Tupperware, was told that was the problem, that Tupperware was

impregnated

with BHT & BHA, that this slowly leaches out into the food AND that

is why

Tupperware kept foods fresher than other containers. So, was NOT in

the way

that lid snapped on but in the petrochemical that leached into the

food. Of

course, that explained why I reached worse and worse with each day,

the

longer my foods were in the Tupperware, the more BHT & BHA leached

into it.

Back then, the Feingold Association sent a legal form to companies

with

products that were in question. The companies that got sent these

legal

forms were ones that had generated a number of complaints on a

national

level. The legal form stated that a number of people reacted to their

product and gave the company a chance to disclose any 'hidden

ingredients'

that may cause this. Of course, if the company didn't respond, they

admitted

guilt so their products got on the 'Do not use list'. Tupperware,

however,

did respond, sent the form back filled out stating that BHT & BHA

were

impregnated into the containers. So, long story but short analysis,

my body

told me that stuff was in there.

That's the way I found out that foods in the grocery store with

added Vit. A

or D also contained BHT & BHA. I reacted to it, asked at the Feingold

meeting and sure enough, it contained that petrochemical. Regular

milk,

with added Vitamin D always had BHT & BHA in it. I would think that

has not

changed but the label only says Vit. D. Additives within additives

are such

a lie in our society, in everything from foods to body products. I

suppose

you know that the majority of body products in the regular market

that are

labeled as unscented actually contain more volatile chemicals to

MASK the

chemicals that make up the original stuff BUT they are allowed to

label it

as 'unscented'. My personal experience with this one is Dove

unscented

deodorant. We had a guest and I reacted to a smell within minutes of

our

guest using it in the spare bedroom. It waffled throughout our

house, hit

my nose and instantly stung my nose and made my head pound. Our

guest was

shocked that her so called unscented deodorant would contain a scent

and not

have to be labeled. She had never heard of masking scents. Of

course, the

masking scent is a scent but just because it was added to cover the

original

'ugly' scent of the product, it did not have to be labeled. Many body

products contain a masking scent and another scent added

specifically to

make a certain scent. The base of these scents are petrochemicals

and I

react badly just using such a shampoo or having to smell such a

shampoo.

Oh, should say that these products, made from petrochemical base,

the base

is oil/gas refined some, but that is what it is. Giving it a

nickname,

petrochemicals, is even misleading. It is simply refined oil and gas

that

we use in machinery. YUK in that even if I didn't react, putting

that in

our foods/animal foods and on our body is ludicrous.