Comments on: Keep Dioxins Out of Your Coffee with Unbleached Filters http://greenlivingworks.com/keep-dioxins-out-of-your-coffee-with-unbleached-filters/59 Green Living Tips for Everyone! Thu, 17 May 2012 06:48:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Mean Your Green « Iron Balloon http://greenlivingworks.com/keep-dioxins-out-of-your-coffee-with-unbleached-filters/59#comment-35160 Mean Your Green « Iron Balloon Sat, 03 Sep 2011 04:08:23 +0000 http://greenlivingworks.com/?p=59#comment-35160 [...] Coffee Filters: Unbleached filters [...] [...] Coffee Filters: Unbleached filters [...]

]]> By: Marshall http://greenlivingworks.com/keep-dioxins-out-of-your-coffee-with-unbleached-filters/59#comment-32118 Marshall Fri, 04 Mar 2011 15:55:30 +0000 http://greenlivingworks.com/?p=59#comment-32118 Check out the last page of this EPA report from 2003: "EPA, the Food and Drug Administration, and the Consumer Product Safety Commission have jointly conducted a comprehensive examination of dioxin risks associated with paper and paper products. This review has included food contact papers such as coffee filters and food packaging, medical products devices such as tampons and surgical dressings, and consumer products like disposable diapers and writing paper. "The three agencies have concluded that none of these products poses a significant risk from dioxin exposure." You can find the report here: http://www.epa.gov/ncea/pdfs/dioxin/factsheets/dioxin_regs.pdf I had heard that one could become exposed to dioxin from bleached filters and have used unbleached ones for decades because of it. But, I guess it's an urban myth. I'll still use unbleached ones anyway. Check out the last page of this EPA report from 2003:

“EPA, the Food and Drug Administration, and the Consumer Product Safety Commission have jointly conducted a comprehensive examination of dioxin risks associated with paper and paper products. This review has included food contact papers such as coffee filters and food packaging, medical products devices such as tampons and surgical dressings, and consumer products like disposable diapers and writing paper.

“The three agencies have concluded that none of these products poses a significant risk from dioxin exposure.”

You can find the report here:

http://www.epa.gov/ncea/pdfs/dioxin/factsheets/dioxin_regs.pdf

I had heard that one could become exposed to dioxin from bleached filters and have used unbleached ones for decades because of it. But, I guess it’s an urban myth. I’ll still use unbleached ones anyway.

]]> By: Adrien Catmull http://greenlivingworks.com/keep-dioxins-out-of-your-coffee-with-unbleached-filters/59#comment-23094 Adrien Catmull Wed, 19 Jan 2011 17:42:45 +0000 http://greenlivingworks.com/?p=59#comment-23094 Interesting post I must say.. Simple but really entertaining and interesting.. Keep up the great work! Interesting post I must say.. Simple but really entertaining and interesting.. Keep up the great work!

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