The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) says that it plans to study the effects of BPA in depth in the future. Currently, the FDA says that BPA’s are safe. According to experts, the FDA bases this on the results of two studies done by other groups. These studies, which were funded by chemical industries, claim [...]
Tags: Baby, Behavior, bottles, BPA, brain, chemicals, child, FDA, infant, plastic, sippy cups, toddler
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Just when you thought (maybe) BPA was safe, we find out that the FDA did not include important evidence in its report.
It turns out that the report’s thumbs-up for BPA was based on studies paid for by the plastics industry! It also conveniently ignored information from some independent studies.
The short story is that the FDA [...]
Tags: bottles, BPA, FDA, plastic
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Here`s a new development to the issue of bisphenol A (BPA) contamination.
The Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) is now advising pregnant and breastfeeding women (as well as their babies) to minimize exposure to this suspected carcinogen and endocrine-disruptive substance. A previous post reported about drinking bottles taken off from store shelves due [...]
Tags: bisphenol A, BPA, cans, plastic
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Drinking water bottles were taken off from the shelves in Canada in December and caused concerns worldwide. The panic was due to an article in Toxicology Letters which was first published online on November 2007 and in print on January 2008. The article reports on the chemical bisphenol A (PBA) which is used in the [...]
Tags: bisphenol A, carcinogen, dirnking bottles, estrogen, PBA, plastic
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