Long Term Emergency Food Storage

[Skean Dhude]

(7 October 2011, 08:34)Brian Wrote: I read in James Wesley Rawles book on survival techniques that used milk containers are no good for storing food as the milk contaminates the plastic and then the bacteria leaches back into the food

I've been thinking about this for while now since I read that in his book and it doesn't make any sense to me. I don't doubt that the fact is correct but what I wonder about is the time especially here in the UK.

Over here we get milk tankers going to a bottling plant, bottling upmilk and then sending to the supermarket. We buy it the next day or so and use it within a few days. We then wash it and use it for something else. Is 5 days or so enough time for this stuff to leech into the plastic long term?

I'm collecting the larger ones for water storage anyway. Perhaps I should get one of my water samples analysed and see what comes back.