Did you ever buy a fish at a pet store that died within days of being put in an aquarium at home? The plastic bag in which the fish traveled home may be the culprit, according to research by marine scientist Heather Hamlin of the University of Maine, Orono. Hamlin and colleagues discovered that certain plastic bags with the Food and Drug Administration food-grade approval leach no-nylphenol (NP) in concentrations that are highly toxic to fish.
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