The safety of bisphenol A moved to the front burner again today, as the National Toxicology Program released its draft report on potential BPA toxicity.
NTP concludes there is “some concern for neural and behavioral effects in fetuses, infants and children at current human exposures,” which it notes "is of special concern because BPA is found in many plastic baby bottles and in the linings of some cans of formula."
For a Web page with links to NTP's BPA studies, click here. For a copy of the most recent report, in PDF format, click here.
Comments (2)
Don - I saw a story about this in an email we get for the healthcare industry, a daily email called "Physician's First Watch" put out by the Massachusetts Medical Society. In this it said "The Canadian government may declare the compound toxic as early as this week, an anonymous source told the New York Times." I hope the mainstream media doesn't blow this out of proportion - they need to get the facts straight instead of writing to unduly scare the general public.
Posted by Tracy Hartman | April 16, 2008 9:49 AM
Posted on April 16, 2008 09:49
Why doesn't anyone explain that the bottles are not BPA but that BPA is used to make Polycarbonate.
Posted by Robert Kleckauskas | April 21, 2008 5:55 PM
Posted on April 21, 2008 17:55