No more plastic toys, bottles and pacifiers for San Francisco
Published: 6 July 2006
Category: Hormonal Changes, Packaging CONCERNS
According to ABC7 TV in San Francisco, San Francisco has banned a type of sturdy, hard plastic made with bisphenol A (BPA), including food-storage containers, disposable silverware and many other plastic products that are such a part of our lives that “it’s easy to forget they contain chemicals that could harm us.”
Last June, San Francisco’s mayor signed bill saying that all toys, bottles and pacifiers made with BPA must be replaced, says the article. The city has allegedly taken such drastic action because “BPA, like many other man-made chemicals, is now detectable in most people’s bloodstreams and could cause dangerous hormonal changes in children.”