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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."
Isn't this extremely old news? Companies have been making BPA-free plastic bottles now for a long long time, including baby bottles.
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These bottles were banned two years ago, though not in the USA. This is hardly a bulletin.
Has it been over a year since you last donated to the Electronic Frontier Foundation
really really old. they have been illegal to sell in canada since last year.
Nalgene, one of, if not the biggest producers of the 'indestructable' plastic bottles with BPA, still does not acknowledge the health detriments even though they stopped producing those bottles. Probably because of liability reasons... http://www.nalgene-outdoor.com/technical/bpaInfo.html
BPA in plastic bottles was banned in Canada last year.
He is referring to the susceptibility that frogs have to their environment combined with the estrogen-like properties of Soy. He didn't mean that frogs could literally grow tits, frogs are not mammals and completely lack the coding for producing milk.
As odd as it may sound, some German beer brands are sold in plastic bottles. They taste like crap, but they do exist.
Companies have been ditching BPA on their own...government intervention is unnecessary. If you wanna whine about government catering to business interests, you're definitely barking up the wrong tree.
At least RTF summary before you accuse people of mass hysteria. It says that aluminum beverage can liners contain BPA.
they sell American beer in plastic bottles around the pool in Vegas. neat, really :)
The bottle itself is a polymer of Bisphenol-A sub-units. As the bottle itself naturally breaks down from exposure to light, heat, etc. the polymer sub-units are liberated into the free BPA that is a problem. As long as there's a bottle made of polycarbonate, the water stored in it will have BPA.
You are right, I have titrated the amount of CO2 in soft drinks at a soft drink makers laboratory, the plastic bottles had to contain 10% more CO2, for that exact reason.
Hey trollie, we're discussing long-term effects of low-concentration chemicals in common-use products (water, food...) here. It's not propaganda, it's science with all the required "maybe" and "perhaps".