Last week, the Canadian government reaffirmed the safe use of bisphenol A (BPA) in food packaging, upholding its 2008 stance that dietary exposure to the chemical does not pose a health risk to the general population, including newborns and young children.
Although this report is reassuring, Canada is responsible for much of the anti-chemical hysteria surrounding plastics and chemicals today. Despite finding that BPA posed no health risk in 2008, two years later Health Canada’s Bureau of Chemical Safety declared BPA to be “toxic” and banned it from baby bottles, claiming that when heated, the chemical may leach out of plastics at levels harmful to infants. Click here to read full article and leave comment.
My Take - This is another pet project of the green movement that has no foundation or merit. Every study supports the safe use of BPA, a chemical that has probably been studied more than anything except DDT, and yet...... they just won't stop their unfounded, unscientific scaremongering.
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