The consent judgment issued by a U.S. District Court in New York is the result of a lawsuit filed by the NRDC in 2010 in an attempt to achieve through litigation what it could not achieve through science-based evidence.

FORBES: Regulation By Litigation May Be Hazardous to Your Health

This is the situation currently unfolding at the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), where regulators have until March 31 to comply with a consent judgment by responding to a petition by the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) to ban the use of the chemical bisphenol A (BPA) in food packaging, food containers and other materials likely to be ingested or to come into contact with food.

FORBES: Regulation By Litigation May Be Hazardous to Your Health