Another victory for American consumers! On June 2, the state of California Senate voted to ban bisphenol A (BPA) from the packaging of baby food and beverage products. You remember BPA, right? It’s that carcinogenic, endocrine disruptor compound found to leach out from plastic bottles (including baby bottles!) and food packaging (including baby formula!).
Well, it [...]
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It was “a major public health victory” according to Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal in a press release. He is referring to the pledge made by America’s top six baby bottle companies to stop using Bisphenol-A (BPA) in their manufacturing process of baby bottles.
He has the right to feel elated as many other anti-BPA advocates [...]
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In the city of Zhuhai in southern China, the deputy mayor has banned Christmas trees and other flammable Christmas decorations from public places including shopping malls, stores and restaurants because he says that they are dangerous and a fire hazard.
Those places that do not follow the ban will be threatened with closure. This has obviously [...]
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