Congress set to bar BPA from all food containers

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by Meg Kissinger - Mar. 14, 2009 12:00 AM

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

MILWAUKEE - Leaders from both the House and Senate introduced legislation Friday to establish a federal ban on bisphenol A in all food and beverage containers.

The bills, introduced by Rep. Edward Markey, D-Mass., and Sens. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., and Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., greatly expand earlier efforts to limit the chemical from products for babies and children only.

The move comes a day after Sunoco, a gas and chemical company, sent word to investors that it is refusing to sell bisphenol A, commonly known as BPA, to companies for use in food and water containers for children younger than 3.

Sunoco told investors that it could not be certain of the compound's safety.

Last week, six baby-bottle manufacturers, including Playtex and Gerber, announced that they would stop using BPA to make the bottles.

Tests conducted for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel last year found toxic levels of the chemical in all 10 packaged products.

The list included those products marked as "microwave safe."

The amounts detected were at levels that scientists have found cause neurological and developmental damage in laboratory animals.

The problems include genital defects, behavioral changes and abnormal development of mammary glands.

The changes to the mammary glands were identical to those observed in women at higher risk for breast cancer.

The Journal Sentinel reviewed 258 scientific studies of BPA and found that an overwhelming majority of the studies show the chemical is harmful.

BPA was tied to breast cancer, testicular cancer, diabetes, hyperactivity, obesity, low sperm counts, miscarriage and a host of other reproductive failures in laboratory animals.

More recent studies using human data have linked BPA to heart disease and diabetes. It has been found to interfere with the effects of chemotherapy in breast-cancer patients.

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[Nagishkaw 510]

Good.

[Ken y Leidys 20]

I know on Fox News, there will be some pro-business bozos complaining about a climate of regulation, but perhaps, they can have the reproductive problems/breast cancer instead of the rest of us.