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Can Ingesting Plastic Or Its Fumes Cause Health Problems?

I left a cutting board on the oven while baking something. it started melting and leaked through the burner plate. I m worried I may have ate some plastic from the cutting board that melted. I m not sure if I did, but if I did will I be ok? could the fumes from the plastic get in the food and cause problems? I really have paranoias about household chemicals and can t believe this happened as I m usually so careful!
posted on Mon, 7 Jul 2014
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Eating plastic particals might have done no Wrong if at all ingestd must havebeen thrown by body by now. As for fume is concern it may cause some problem but in large qantity and then only. Now you r fit n fine enjoy the life
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Can Ingesting Plastic Or Its Fumes Cause Health Problems?

Eating plastic particals might have done no Wrong if at all ingestd must havebeen thrown by body by now. As for fume is concern it may cause some problem but in large qantity and then only. Now you r fit n fine enjoy the life