Bisphenol a in canned food like Campbell’s Chicken Noodle? New York Time’s columnist Nicholas Kristof’s turned his keen eye to bisphenol-a (aka BPA) Sunday in what may become a continuing series, “Chemicals in Our Food, Our Bodies.” He pulled out the usual data in addition to a new study by Consumer Reports. The anal organization apparently found traces of BPA in popular …
Bisphenol-a (aka BPA), the exiled former chemical in hard, clear plastic including sippy cups and baby bottles, may have been prematurely purged. The plastic non grata turns out to look rather safe according to a new EPA-funded animal study. Worries over BPA have focused on it’s possible estrogenic effects, much like, say estrogen found in birth control pills. So researchers …
The national media will not let up on the dangers of bisphenol A. This from Let the Baby Have His Bottle? at Slate.com: The controversy over BPA comes from the hundreds of “low dose” studies that have emerged in the last decade, which suggest that the chemical is more of …
Been quite a week for that little chemical, bisphenol A, aka BPA, the suspected toxic substance in hard clear plastic, like baby bottles and sippy cups. A science writer at a lofty news weekly says BPA is bad and that people have not been paying enough attention to the studies …
Well, well, well. Would you believe the chairman of the FDA‘s bisphenol-a advisory panel may be in cahoots, kinda, sorta, with a not unbiased big-money donor? The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported Dr. Martin Philbert, the FDA guy in charge of sorting out the fate of BPA also founded and co-heads …