Does anyone know about the safety of the plastic used in the Model line? I’m thinking about BPA and Phthalates
Full disclosure, I have not looked into the materials used in the model line at all. However, based on the most common use cases I would think that the chances of Phthalates would be fairly low since they are an additive used to cause a reaction in plastics to increase their flexibility/ malleability and the plastic on my model:cycles feels very hard.
Again, I’m just sort of “logic-ing” this out and if you’re concerned you should do some research. Maybe contact elektron.
Mine tastes safe
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If I had to guess, the case is ABS. Probably safe, whether you’re drinking out of it or not.
I mean, are you touching it enough for it to matter? I use mine plenty but I’m only touching the buttons and knobs. I’m really not poo pooing OP’s question. But it isn’t like you are drinking hot tea out of it.
…if u take all the soft plastic buttons and melt them to make a tupperware box for keeping food fresh to eat out of it on daily bases, u might find urself unable to still reproduce urself a decade later…
and if u crush the hard case parts to small plastic grains to add a spoon of it to ur daily breakfast habits, u might reduce ur life expectancy for 10 years…
but hell yeah, if u model or not, this world got a serious plastic problem…
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Thanks all for the discussion! I love what Elektron has done with the series, but I did feel a bit disappointed in the decision to use plastic. I’d happily pay a couple extra hundred for metal like my other machines.
Response from Elektron for anyone interested:
To our knowledge the plastics of the Model:Series can contain traces of BPA. This is orders of magnitude lower than the EU legislation (in form of the REACH regulation) requires.
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the EU regulations are very strict, you cannot get CE certificate if the plastic would be harmful
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