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Originally Posted by Chief Pagan

I am worried enough about plastics that I did research it and decided to go with a name brand sous vide bag instead of geniric knock offs. I also don't usually sous vide at high temperatures. Steaks I do at 130. The hotest thing I do is ribs at 145.
I don't see any reason to think chemicals from sous vide is any worse than all the other junk in your food and environment.

Environmental Health Perspectives study says NO plastics are safe. If you read the link it says why despite attempt sot produce safer bags.

Unfortunately, the science does not support these sous vide advocates’ position. Instead, research shows an alarming set of concerns around plastics in general, and especially plastics used in food preparation. As I wrote previously, “BPA-free does not mean safe, nor free of, other similar or even more dangerous chemicals that act similarly or even worse than BPA and other estrogen mimickers.”1

This is confirmed in a toxicology study published in 2011 in Environmental Health Perspectives, which examined more than four hundred and fifty commercially available plastic products used to contain foodstuffs.4,5 The investigators found that almost all of the products sampled “leached chemicals having reliably detectable EA [estrogenic activity], including those advertised as BPA free. In some cases, BPA-free products released chemicals having more EA than BPA-containing products.”5 As these authors note, chemicals with estrogenic activity can cause numerous adverse health effects in “fetal and juvenile mammals,” “especially at low (picomolar to nanomolar) doses.” 5