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BPA Leaches From Polycarbonate Bottles Into Humans
Linus the Turbonerd sends in the bulletin that BPA, a toxic chemical used in the production of polycarbonate, the plastic composing hard, clear water bottles, has been found to leach out of such containers, directly into the water that their users consume. "In addition to polycarbonate bottles, which are refillable and a popular container among students, campers and others and are also used as baby bottles, BPA is also found in dentistry composites and sealants and in the lining of aluminum food and beverage cans. ... 'We found that drinking cold liquids from polycarbonate bottles for just one week increased urinary BPA levels by more than two-thirds. If you heat those bottles, as is the case with baby bottles, we would expect the levels to be considerably higher. This would be of concern since infants may be particularly susceptible to BPA's endocrine-disrupting potential,' said Karin B. Michels, associate professor of epidemiology at HSPH and Harvard Medical School and senior author of the study."
This could grow tits on a frog.
"Speaking the Truth in times of universal deceit is a revolutionary act." -- George Orwell
This is one of many reasons I take my soda in the form of glass bottles. Vivà IBC!
Well, either that or the enriched uranium canisters that mountain dew comes in.
Ya, resent developmental research has pointed out this as the most probable cause as the "straw that broke the camels back" as it were in causing the turning on of certain genes that are linked to the association of being gay. As a young gay biologist I will be following this story further in the future.
This is the justification of beast feeding that I've been waiting for. Now, if you don't mind, I'm off to find a tit.
Unitil I return, all the breast, to you and yours.
Know your pads. One time pad: good for cryptography. Two timing pad: where to take your mistress.
Great! I think we should all go back to lead plumbing and lead pewter cups.... After a couple of generations, we won't have all these fancy "scientific" reports.... Instead we will have... "wite paint tastyer than blu paint"
refinance cost
I know, eh?? For fucks sake, they haven't even banned dihydrogen monoxide yet!! Bunch of anti-science weirdos, if you ask me ...
"There's no such thing as soy milk. It's soy juice. But they couldn't sell soy juice, so they called it soy milk. Because anytime you say soy juice, you actually...start to gag. Know how come I know there's no such thing as soy milk? Because there's no soy titty, is there?"
- Lewis Black on Broadway
If she's only got soyabeans, rather than coconuts or melons, you probably aren't going to compliment them.
"Hey, that's a nice set of soybeans on that blond over there, I really like to soak her overnight in water and then give her a wet grinding."
Pedobear approves without quite knowing why.
Rampant carbon sequestration destroyed the Dinosaurs' tropical paradise. I'm here to help repair the damage.