From Environmental Health Symposium Why did the European Union’s equivalent to the FDA (EFSA) decide to lower the allowable exposure levels of bisphenol A to 5000 times lower than the current average daily exposure levels in the U.S. and 100,000 times lower than previously assumed safe by the FDA? A coalition of researchers, physicians and environmental advocacy/child […]
Consumers are demanding BPA-free products, but the alternatives are no safer. The word is out about bisphenol-A (BPA), the chemical that is commonly used in drinking containers, children’s toys, and other plastic products: it’s been linked to diabetes, asthma, cancer, obesity, and altered prostate and neurological development, among other illnesses. Unfortunately, the alternatives that industry […]
From Environmental Health News: As water treatment plants struggle to keep up with the chemical cocktail heading into our pipes, researchers say they’ve come up with a solution to remove one of the most ubiquitous contaminants—BPA. Chemists were able to remove about 99 percent of bisphenol A (BPA) from water using a mixture of hydrogen […]
We’ve got good news and bad news. And very bad news. Action Alert! The good news: more and more companies and government bodies are concluding that the endocrine-disruptor bisphenol-A (BPA) is bad for you! China has banned BPA in baby bottles; the European Union banned use of the chemical entirely; Canada declared BPA to be […]
And some popular BPA replacements may be even worse for your health. Action Alert!
It’s time to take the BPA fight to the state legislatures. Action Alerts!
While the FDA dillydallied on reviewing its earlier ruling that bisphenol A (BPA) poses no threat to health, researchers at the National Institutes of Health — basing their findings on 2009 findings — linked BPA to the interference of brain development both in newborns and the unborn.
Even this limited action is taken only at industry request.
Close. Many products that now boast they’re “BPA-free” have simply switched to a BPA relative that may be equally toxic!