First off, I don't get too worked up about any studies any more that say "blah, blah, blah,... may be harmful to you." Pretty much everything can be harmful to you. Live you life without being afraid of everything and you'll really begin to live.

Second, Nalgene is NOT a water bottle company. Their primary income is in laboratory equipment. When I worked at a tire factory all the recepticles, test tubes, etc, were Nalgene. If Nalgenes leeched out chemicals the way that this current wave of "studies" indicate, they would have gone out of business a long time ago for skewing lab results. Folks, this stuff is as safe as you could want.

In the last couple of months I've had a wave of yuppies come into REI looking for Nalgenes or other water bottles that won't "hurt" their water. They ask a bunch of technical questions, and all I want to do is scream at them and tell them to drink TAP water from a cup, go buy their annual North Face jacket, and get out of my store!

Yeah, I'm practicing to be a professional curmudgeon. <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/mad.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />