BPA on Prop 65 list: now you see it, now you don’t, thankfully

American Council on Science and Health

After the politically-motivated listing of the plastic hardener Bisphenol-A (BPA) was at last squeezed onto California’s nefarious Proposition 65 list of allegedly toxic chemicals, a local Sacramento judge kicked it off, correctly stating that the chemical’s listing flew in the face of scientific and regulatory evidence. A division of California’s environmental agency finally figured out a way to list BPA, a poster-child for “toxic chemicals” and “endocrine disrupters” of the radical environmental activists. This was accomplished by using a bureaucratic subterfuge to get around the scientific committee which had repeatedly rejected listing it. But, not so fast, said  Sacramento County Superior Court Judge Raymond Cadei, who (unlike the Prop 65 committee members, apparently) actually reviewed the scientific evidence, including that of our own Federal regulators, the FDA. He ordered the chemical immediately de-listed….To Read More…

Editor's Note:  To read more on this subject you may wish to view Alan Caruba's "BPA File", which Alan allowed me to publish.