Are Plastic Food Containers Safe?

[0:00]Given what we know now, should people even be using plastic containers? It's a personal choice, but the science points toward caution. When they're heated, plastics can shed microscopic particles into your food. And it's not just the physical plastic, there's the issue of chemical leaching. We all know about BPA, but many BPA-free plastics use alternatives like BPS and BPF. So we all know plastic is incredibly useful, it's lightweight, it doesn't break. The safety of it is really conditional on you never heating it.