What's the deal with Plastic?

Have you heard the new scare about plastic water bottles? They say we are being poisoned by the chemicals the the plastic is made from. I read an article the other day that extends this to anything plastic that we eat or serve food from. Like plastic dishes. They say the real danger is when we heat them. Such as warming food in the microwave in so called "microwave safe" containers. So what do you think? Maybe the makers of china and glassware are trying to incite mass histeria? Or maybe it is true and we are poisoning ourselves.