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by riversflow 1959 days ago
>I guess I'm reluctant to eat acidic stuff out of plastic.

It might help to realize that plastics are extremely resistant to acids. Hazardous Industrial acid products, far stronger than anything a consumer can purchase, are stored in Polypropylene barrels. Generally speaking plastics are considerably more resistant to inorganic chemicals than even specially formulated metal alloys.[1](link even lists the resistant data for tomato juice :)) Additionally, metal used for canning is usually(always?) lined with plastic[2] to keep metals from leaching. Ironically canned foods with bpa liners are one of the biggest vectors of BPA intake we know of.[3]

[1]https://www.usplastic.com/catalog/files/charts/LG%20CC.pdf [2]https://www.ewg.org/research/bpa-canned-food [3]https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00139...