Published: 8 August 2008
“SHAPE” magazine reports on the bisphenol A (BPA) water bottle health scare and suggests using glass containers, polypropylene containers, or aluminum bottles to avoid the chemical. BPA is reportedly linked to pre-cancerous tumors and hormonal changes and is most often found in water bottles, baby bottles, food containers, and the lining of metal cans.
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Published: 31 July 2008
The “Daily Mail” reports the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has angered campaigners by rejecting a raft of research highlighting health risks caused by bisphenol A (BPA), a chemical found in certain plastic containers. The EU rejected calls to ban baby bottles made with BPA, which is allegedly linked to breast cancer and fertility […]
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Published: 3 July 2008
Stoneham Massachusetts’ “Wicked Local” reports U.S. Rep. Edward Markey, who represents the 7th District of Massachusetts, recently filed a bill, HR 6228, which would ban the use of bisphenol A (BPA) in all food and drink packaging. BPA is used in the production of many common household items in the U.S., including plastic baby […]
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Published: 2 July 2008
“The Oregonian” reports on the plastic chemical bisphenol A (BPA), found in water bottles, water pitchers, baby bottles and liners in canned foods, and its link to cancer, miscarriage, infertility, obesity and immunity and sexual-development problems in animal studies. The article gives tips for consumers on how to recognize which plastic containers contain BPA.
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Published: 18 June 2008
Ontario’s “Sarnia Observer” reports a breakthrough breast cancer study spearheaded by two researchers is revealing some disturbing trends. The first study is a four-year case control study involving 2,000 women from Essex-Kent County, which is nearing the end of its data collection phase. The second study is a two-year qualitative exposure study, which is […]
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Published: 2 June 2008
According to PBS’s “Bill Moyers Journal,” officials from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and other government witnesses were called to a Senate Committee hearing on the safety of bisphenol A (BPA), which is used in a variety of plastic products from baby sippy cups to eyeglasses. BPA allegedly leaches from food and beverage […]
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Published: 30 May 2008
“High Country News” reports certain environmental chemicals, both natural and man-made, can bind to and deceive the hormone receptors that govern everything from metabolism to sex to the development of cancer. Chemicals such as DDT and bisphenol A (BPA), which was banned from plastic baby bottles this spring in Canada, are reportedly challenging scientists […]
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Published: 28 May 2008
The “McClatchy News Observer” reports Sheryl Crow joined Rep. Sue Myrick in a congressional hearing on breast cancer research, which urged Congress to put more resources into figuring out what the environment has to do with breast cancer. One possible link between breast cancer and the environment may be the plastic chemical bisphenol A […]
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Published: 2 May 2008
The “Washington Post” reports “despite more than 100 published studies by government scientists and university laboratories that have raised health concerns about bisphenol A (BPA), a chemical compound that is central to the multibillion-dollar plastics industry, the Food and Drug Administration has deemed it safe largely because of two studies, both funded by an industry […]
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Published: 1 May 2008
According to the “Globe and Mail,” disposal of plastic bottles that contain the chemical bisphenol A (BPA) could be an after-ban safety issue, as BPA has been declared toxic by Health Canada and is reportedly an estrogen-mimicking chemical that may be linked to cancers and fertility problems. Some BPA has reportedly been shown to […]
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