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I can confirm this is common. But after sterilizing the bottle or washing the bottle, you don't give that water to the child. One usually just cleans using the microwave, rinse it out, then you add water from another source that hasn't been in the microwave in a plastic container.

They probably don't advise serving the water that you used for sterilization to your child.

Well yes, but whatever milk/water you serve in it right afterwards will still taste and smell of burnt plastic. I take it as something inevitable because no one's going to be giving a glass milk bottle to an infant.

Maybe I should dump every single child plastic drink/dinnerware for 18/10 stainless steel.

That's fucked up, for real.

Because it’s boiling plastic or silicone? Silicone should be fine, no? Can’t the plastic be engineered to take it?