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18w preg. & cooked pasta earlier,put pasta in plastic strainer & then back in the pot, strainer melted quite a bit, still ate pasta, did i hurt baby?

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Dr. Robert Kwok answered

No: We live in a toxic world, so eating a meal out of a heat-deformed plastic container (such as microwaving a container of food) does not add a noticeable amount of toxins to the amount of toxins we experience on a normal daily basis. That being said, still try to avoid getting extra toxins.

Answered 4/20/2016

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A member asked:

18w preg. & cooked pasta earlier,put pasta in plastic strainer & then back in the pot, strainer melted quite a bit, still ate pasta, did i hurt baby?

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Dr. Robert Kwok answered

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