Tag: Bisphenol A
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An Aerial View of BPA: Where Are We Since the Rejected Ban?
Where does the FDA stand on a BPA ban?
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BPA is FDA's Latest Gift to Food Industry
Without a hint of irony, FDA maintains several web pages with helpful information for parents and others wishing to avoid BPA, such as: “What You Can Do to Minimize Your Infant’s Exposure to BPA.”
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FDA Punts On Banning Bisphenol A; NRDC is Outraged, But I Think They Got It Right
It is one thing to ban something, it is another thing to have something to replace it with at hand. We don't.
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What is Causing Early Puberty In Girls?
New York Times article asks a lot of questions, and doesn't deliver a lot of answers.
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Campbell's Says It's Heading BPA-Free
Under pressure from parents and breast cancer groups, Campbell's Soup says it has transition plan away from BPA in motion
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Link Between BPA and Heart Disease Seen in Urine, New Study Reports
A new study finds those with heart disease had higher concentrations of BPA in their urine.
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New Study Strengthens Link Between Obesity, Diabetes and BPA
BPA had been found to trigger the release of insulin in nearly twice the amount as when glucose is ingested.
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BPA Identified As Potential "Environmental Obesogen"
Just when I thought it would be fine to cook with canned tomato sauce - bis-Phenol A recently having been granted toxicology probation - emerges the possibility that BPA can make you obese. Ohhh wait - not
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From Parentables: Bisphenol A Found In Canned Soup Marketed To Kids
A new study from the Breast Cancer Fund shows that BPA is found in canned foods marketed specifically to kids. This should be no surprise to TreeHugger readers; we have been talking about BPA lining cans for years. All
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Would You Prefer Your Receipts To Be Paperless?
Image from For BPA, Exposure Matters; Handling Receipts and Eating Canned Foods Pose Greatest Danger
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China and Malaysia to Ban BPA From Chidren's Products
It was a sad day last year when intense lobbying efforts in Congress won out, and a ban on BPA in children's products was blocked. But it seems that China and Malaysia have beaten us to the punch. According to Green Biz, China and
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Appleton Responds To Questions About Safety of BPA Free Thermal Paper
I recently quoted from Dominique Browning's article in the New York Times about substitutes for Bisphenol A. Browning suggested that Appleton's BPA free thermal paper was made with a substitute, Bisphenol S, that was not yet
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Susan Freinkel on Our Toxic Plastic Love Affair (Podcast)
It clogs our oceans and tampers with our bodies, yet without it, all modern life would skid to a stop. Susan Freinkel's new book, Plastic: A Toxic Love Story, explores the rise of plastic into ubiquity, hails it for its life-saving wonders, and explores
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Banning BPA Is One Thing, But What About Its Replacements?
Dominique Browning writes an important article in the New York Times about the problem of getting rid of Bisphenol A (BPA) but replacing it with alternatives that may not be any better, or in fact might be worse. For example, TreeHugger has written
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The Real Reason Why Coca-Cola Isn't Ditching Bisphenol A
Ariel Schwartz writes at Fast Company: Why Coca-Cola Isn't Ditching BPA, the chemical that has been linked everything from breast cancer in women to breast growth on men, noting that "the stuff is
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Plastic, A Toxic Love Story (Book Review)
Like most TreeHugger readers I had an ah ha moment a while ago regarding plastics, the ubiquity of them in our lives, the huge problems of disposing or recycling them, the absurdity of using a material that takes anywhere from thousands to billions of
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Switch to Fresh Foods Could Lower Your Bisphenol A Exposure By 60%
Food packaging is a big source of our overall exposure to endocrine disruptor Bisphenol A, according to a peer-review study to be published in Environmental Health Perspectives. It's hard to make a steady scapegoat
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In Defence of Plastics, The Miracle Material
We have made fun of the stuff ever since Mr. McGuire told Ben in the Graduate "I just want to say one word to you .... just one word...Plastics. There's a great future in plastics."
