Tag: Bisphenol A - Page 3
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FDA On BPA: It Has "Some Concern." But Not Much.
The Food and Drug Administration finally came out with their long-awaited update on the use of Bisphenol A in food contact applications and they say.......wait a little longer. The key paragraph of the release can
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More BPA in Adults Could Mean More Heart Disease
At some point, even the people at Stats.org are going to have to acknowledge the growing pile of studies from all over the world adding to the case against Bisphenol A (BPA). The latest, From the University of Exeter,
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New Study Finds a Cocktail of Contaminants in Newborns
There have been lots of studies by agencies such as the Centers for Disease Control that have looked at what is in our blood, but the Environmental Working Group has just completed an interesting (and disturbing) new one. They looked at minority
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The Politics of Plastics: Food Fights Over Bisphenol A
La Tomatina Food Fight
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Consumers Reports Confirms Bisphenol A Leaches From Tin Cans
Two new bits of research: A new study by members of the Reproductive Toxicology Branch of the EPA did not find any evidence that Bisphenol A (BPA), was a "gender bender" in female rats. BPA "Does not Alter
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Bisphenol A Makes Girls Mean
So now we know what happened; Mom ate too much canned tomato sauce and drank out of an old polycarbonate bottle. According to a new study, prenatal exposure to Bisphenol A (BPA) makes little girls as mean and aggressive as little boys.
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EPA Looking at Regulation of Gender Bender Chemicals in Drinking Water
The Environmental Protection Agency continues to surprise and amaze; after eight years of sitting on the science and doing very little protection, it is on the move. Now it is looking at what is in our drinking water, and considering regulating
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SIGG Folds, Offers (Not Quite) Free Replacement of Bottles Made with BPA
SIGG President Steve Wasik must have expected trouble when the story broke about the lining of his company's bottles, and customers have not been particularly impressed with his response, demanding replacement of their
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Transparency is the New Black
..before we start hearing
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BPA Industry Fights Back with Tobacco Industry Tactics
When it comes to the political side of the Bisphenol A (BPA) story, we owe a real debt to Meg Kissinger and Susanne Rust of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. They have followed the money (FDA Chair Studying BPA Took $5 Million Donation From BPA Supporter
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Are You Throwing Out Your SIGG?
After the news came out that SIGG was being, shall we say politely, a bit disingenuous with statements like those in the ad above, I suggested that people might as well keep using them, suggesting that this was an issue of trust and transparency, not
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Canadian Medical Association Calls for Ban on Triclosan
TreeHugger has been all over Bisphenol A this week, but there is another gender bender chemical that we have been talking about since John wrote There’s A Frog Disruptor In My Soap three years ago: Triclosan. It is in all kinds of so-called
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Find a BPA Free Alternative To SIGG
Commenters have been all over me for suggesting that old SIGG bottles that are lined with epoxy resin made with Bisphenol A (BPA) are safe to keep using. One blogger, Real Green Girl, writes: "Really? Lloyd Alter, after 4 postings and an ambush of
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Should I Dump My Old Sigg That Was Made With BPA?
After writing our recent posts on SIGG bottles, (see SIGG Bottles Now BPA Free. But What Were They Before? and SIGG Update: Did We Get It Right?) I was asked the question "should i get rid of my sigg bottles? And maybe mine are ok, but what about the
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SIGG Update: Did We Get It Right?
Michael Arrington of Techcrunch has said about blogging: "Better to get it fast than to get it right." And sometimes we do get it wrong. A year and a half ago I wrote about the issue of Bisphenol A in SIGG bottles, and spoke with Steve Wasik, the CEO
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SIGG Bottles Now BPA Free. But What Were They Before?
A year and a half ago we asked Are Sigg Aluminum Bottles BPA Free? and our answer was inconclusive. SIGG bottles consistently tested with no detectable levels of Bisphenol A (BPA), but when we asked if their liner was made with BPA, CEO Steve Wasik
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Is There Bisphenol A In Your Home Canning?
We recently reported that the endocrine disruptor Bisphenol A (BPA) was found in organic baby food packed in glass jars, apparently from the lining of the metal lid. (see
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Bisphenol A Found in Baby Food in Glass Jars
OK, So you have given up on canned baby food and switched to glass to avoid the endocrine disruptor Bisphenol A (BPA), right? Well, maybe not. Health Canada (which last year banned BPA in baby bottles) tested baby food bottled in glass and
