Leaving a Plastic Bottle of a drink in a car can be hazardous to your health

Yeah i agree with you that it does lead to cancer. I had read an article which was given to me by my friend. The plastic bottles are of low quality which release certain toxins when exposed to sunlight. This in long run leads to cancer. It is always advisable that you should not re-use bisleri and soda bottles.

Hi there. Wow, Ive never heard of the "Sheryl Crow" incident until now, to think a bottle of water left in a car for a day creates certain toxins that could lead to cancer, because I know Ive done this without realising the consequences, this post has prompted my attention to leaving any bottled water in the sun, no matter where we are... Thanks for Info, I appreciate it... I did watch something on a "NZ News" program a couple of months back about drink bottles being left in cars and burning things, like the car seat, actually Ive found this very information on an NZ News site... Feel free to take a look... http://tvnz.co.nz/view/page/410965/1072401

it's not that i don't believe in the claim of Sheryl Crow, but i read few articles saying contrary to your information. The article further reports that "In the United States, plastic water bottles are regulated by the FDA as "food contact substances" and held to the same safety standards as food additives. This means, among other things, that the FDA has reviewed test data on the safety of the plastics used in water bottles -- including the potential for hazardous chemicals leaching or "migrating" from the plastic into the water -- and established that they pose no significant risk to human health. The water itself is also tested and must meet basic quality standards similar to those set by the Environmental Protection Agency for public drinking water. That is not to say that bottled water is absolutely free of contaminants, nor that chemical leaching never takes place. Studies done on water bottled in FDA-approved polyethylene terephthalate (PET), for example, did find trace amounts of potentially hazardous substances believed to have migrated from the plastic. The important point to take away, however, is that these amounts were very small and well within the safety limits set by FDA and EPA regulators. According to Dr. Rolf Halden of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, consumers face a much greater risk from potential exposure to MICROBIAL CONTAMINANTS in bottled water -- germs, to you and me -- than from chemical ones." Source: http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/medical/a/bottled-water.htm