If I can’t find it in glass and cannot make it then I won’t eat it. We’ve tried to eliminate as much of that stuff as we can from our life and started making our own instead. It seems like everything sold nowadays is in plastic bottles. There is always a cost to everything and in the realm of safety and personal health, my monetary costs go up every time industry tries to cut back, down size, make things cheap and affordable, or make it easier or quicker and putting food in plastic is a good case in point. My take on this is that there is no such thing as a “safe” plastic just as there is no such thing as something for “free”. I must be the most contrarian curmudgeon ever to surf this site. A few bucks aint worth much these days anyway, right? ) Spend a few bucks and get the food grade. Hopefully that makes sense.īottom line, preferably use food-grade storage plastics (look for the symbol). Just because a non-food-safe bucket may have leached some potentially bad chemicals into the food in small amounts – I would rather eat food than worry about possible long term health effects from eating said food. Let me finish my brief opinion with this…Īt the end of the day, it’s about survival. But in my view this is fairly insignificant for long term food storage. With that said, for the sake of clarity, Mylar bags will leach from outside to inside over a long period of time (depending on the bag’s thickness / qualities). If you are utilizing Mylar inserts, I wouldn’t be too concerned. If that availability were scarce, I wouldn’t worry too much. HOWEVER, I only say that because of the availability of food safe buckets. If a given bucket/pail is not specifically labeled as food-safe (via icons or indicators), then I personally wouldn’t use them for long term food storage “IF” foods were directly contacting surfaces (dumping it in raw). If you are unsure, you might simply contact the supplier or manufacturer to confirm. No mold release agent of any kind is used inside the bottles of this process. Some mold release agents enable much faster production than others, but may be toxic to your health if later used with food.Īpparently other processes do not use a mold release agent and only use high pressure compressed air to blow the bottles into shape on the inside. Without the release agent, the new plastic shape will likely stick to the mold. In some processes, a mold release agent is what is used to help get the newly shaped plastic off of the hard mold that it was shaped from during the manufacturing process.
#2 HDPE buckets that are not food grade may have been manufactured with a non-food-grade “mold release agent”. > 5 Gallon Samson Stackers, 6 Pack (30 Gallons)īuckets that are not food grade may out-gas and leach into the container, as well as into the contents held within the container. The typical ‘blue’ water storage containers or water barrels are also made of high density polyethylene #2 HDPE and are marketed as food safe.
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