These independent science and health experts decided unanimously that BPA did not meet the threshold for listing under Proposition 65.

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In a response, a representative for Whole Foods denied that any of its products represented health risks, citing standards that were set forth in California's Proposition 65, a state law setting clean-water standards that includes a list of carcinogens.

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We would start to see Proposition 65 warnings on the thousands of consumer products, including automobile and aircraft parts, beer cans, plastic bath and kitchen appliances, cell phones, cameras, flat screen television sets, hand held computing devices, that use BPA to improve their safety and performance.

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Nevertheless, over the past two years the state has been forced to pursue a costly and time-consuming review of BPA thanks to a petition filed by NRDC on the very same day in 2009 that DARTIC decided there was no evidence to support a Proposition 65 listing.

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But only 65% of disabled people agreed with the proposition - showing lower confidence in those who have personal experience of the attitude being measured.

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