My Dad & his colleagues found this out ~30 years ago. They convinced the pharmaceutical company they worked for to switch to all glass - from reagent purchase and storage to lab equipment.
It was discovered while calibrating test equipment. It took awhile to figure out why all of sudden some were getting inconsistent results with the testing compounds etc. Eventually someone noticed that the folks getting the strange results were using reagents etc, stored and/or mixed in plastic.
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Date: 2008-11-08 02:39 pm (UTC)It was discovered while calibrating test equipment. It took awhile to figure out why all of sudden some were getting inconsistent results with the testing compounds etc. Eventually someone noticed that the folks getting the strange results were using reagents etc, stored and/or mixed in plastic.