http://www.emagazine.com/view/?5180 What do breast milk, food cans, microwave popcorn, and fast-food French fry boxes have in common with meat, fish and dairy products? They’re all avenues of human ingestion of potentially harmful chemicals associated with everyday plastics. Although the jury is still out on what levels of exposure are unsafe, it is indisputable that we… Read more
http://www.emagazine.com/view/?5176 Bad News BPA May 24, 2010 Reported by Brita Belli More bad news is emerging about the chemical bisphenol-A (BPA), found in canned food linings and much plastic food and beverage packaging. A study just published in Environmental Health Perspectives finds a significant relationship between mice exposed to BPA during pregnancy and pre-diabetes. The… Read more
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/21/opinion/21thur2.html Editorial Heightened Concern Over BPA Published: January 21, 2010 Consumers should choose products without BPA until regulators determine whether exposure to the chemical found in baby bottles is harmful.
When pregnant mice are exposed to bisphenol A (BPA), a chemical used in everyday plastics, such as sunglasses, drink bottles, shatterproof baby-bottles, and some dental sealants and fillings, exposure may adversely affect the mother, but also, disturb development in the unborn fetuses. In a recently released report, USGS scientists say even low doses of the… Read more
