Activist researchers claim BPA causes obesity because it can be used in fast food packaging.
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Yet BPA is now blamed via the most primitive associational analysis for obesity, impotence, early puberty, and you-name-it.
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Now as the BPA controversy has emerged, the sustainability spotlight is suddenly on Eden.
At this point, it is finally time for the NRDC to stop this BPA escapade.
Meanwhile, the canning industry has been hard at work on alternatives to BPA-laced epoxy resins.
At elevated temperatures, the BPA in polycarbonate will leach out over 50 times faster.
In other words, BPA is no worse than anything else you encounter every day.
Almost 1m tonnes of BPA are used annually in America, and over 3m tons worldwide.
So what are worried parents to do until permanent replacements for BPA become available?
In other words, when it comes to BPA in food, whatever goes in, very quickly comes out.
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The BPA Defiant has now been moved to its new home at the RAF Museum in Cosford.
According to researchers, some level of BPA is present in about 93% of people in this country.
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At least 14 baby bottle manufacturers offer BPA-free alternatives or have banned the use of the chemical.
BPA's chief transmission expert, explains that the impetus for this experiment was a big blackout in 1996.
Some 50, 000 man-hours later an exact replica of a Defiant was unveiled at the BPA base in 2002.
The presence of BPA in lab equipment meant to test for BPA has clearly been distorting the data.
The current rage is something called Bisphenol-A (BPA), which is in the lining of most every food-containing can.
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Well, BPA has undergone many thousands of lab tests, and shown to be safe for use in humans.
Scientists have been leery about BPA since the 1930s, when it was discovered to be an endocrine disruptor.
Basic chemistry: The BPA gains a sugar molecule in the gut and liver.
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Another study tried to scare us into believing BPA contributes to heart disease.
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Because the same estrongenic activity (EA) linked to BPA is found in a host of other compounds in plastic.
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Now comes the news that avoiding plastic products containing BPA may not help.
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For one thing, the amount of BPA finding its way into everyday life soared, thanks to the bottled-water craze.
But the finding is meaningless because the human body eliminates BPA very efficiently.
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The FDA banned the use of BPA in baby bottles in July 2012, because of its link to developmental delays.
Researchers took a single urine sample from hospitalized heart patients, found normal BPA trace amounts, and concluded BPA did it.
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These independent science and health experts decided unanimously that BPA did not meet the threshold for listing under Proposition 65.
Until then the BPA will be giving electricity away, and paying the transmission costs of utilities willing to take it.
The science confirming the safety of BPA in food packaging is very strong, yet some advocates find it somewhat unsettled.
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