Despite years of significant evidence that BPAs (which leach from bottles) are not safe for humans, the federal government insists that human consumption of BPAs is safe.
The Food and Drug Administration is not working for the interests of the people.
Scientists Around the World Condemn FDA for Declaring BPA is Safe
(NaturalNews) An international consortium of experts on the toxic chemical bisphenol A (BPA) has issued a statement condemning the FDA's insistence that the chemical is safe.
...
BPA, used to make plastics hard and transparent, is commonly used in everything from baby bottles and water bottles to CD cases, eyeglasses and the resin that lines cans of food and infant formula. Yet research has implicated the substance as an endocrine disruptor that mimics the effects of estrogen in the body, leading to health problems including developmental and reproductive defects, hampered immune function, brain damage and disease, diabetes, and heart disease.
...
In the past 10 years, 130 different scientific studies have linked BPA to health problems, even at doses far beneath the levels considered safe by the FDA.
Yet the FDA continues to insist that the chemical is safe, based only on two industry-funded studies.
...
No comments:
Post a Comment