“Funding Effect” on BPA Study Results
Published: 28 July 2008
Category: Bisphenol A (BPA), Packaging CONCERNS, Studies/Federal Regulations
The “Washington Post” reports on of the raising statistics about studies on the plastic chemical bisphenol A (BPA) is the extreme divergence in results, depending on who funded them: “more than 90 percent of the 100-plus government-funded studies performed by independent scientists found health effects from low doses of BPA, while none of the fewer than two dozen chemical-industry-funded studies did.” Low doses of BPA have been linked to prostate and mammary gland changes in laboratory animals that were exposed as fetuses and infants.