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BPA Wrecks Sex, Fouls Food — and Worse
Posted by Elaine Shannon in BPA, Environmental Health Science, FDA, Featured Articles, Government (In)Action, Pollution in People on November 11, 2009 | No Comments
When people ask whether modern synthetics are damaging their health and endangering future generations, Topic A is nearly always bisphenol A (BPA), a synthetic estrogen, an integral component of polycarbonate plastics and epoxy resins and one of the highest volume industrial chemicals in existence.
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FDA Under Pressure for BPA Food Safety Rules
Posted by Elaine Shannon in BPA, FDA, Featured Articles, Government (In)Action on November 5, 2009 | 2 Comments
As a key deadline approaches, scientists and environmental health advocates are ramping up pressure on the federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to rein in food contamination from bisphenol A (BPA), a plastic component and synthetic estrogen detected in the bodies of 93 percent of Americans tested.
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Flame Retardants for Breakfast
It’s not like we needed more proof that our chemical regulatory system is completely broken. But we have it anyway.
It appears as though the food industry is starting to ship fresh produce on plastic pallets, each made with 3.5 pounds of pure decabromodiphenyl ether – Deca for short, the neurotoxic...
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