Personal Injury Law

Are Those Plastic Baby Bottles Safe? Some Findings and Advice

What parent could not be concerned upon hearing worrisome reports that bisphenol A (BPA), a chemical used in many polycarbonate plastics and epoxy resins such as plastic baby bottles, is dangerous to their newborns. The federal government and others are now studying this issue, but are not reaching the same conclusions as each other. Most recently, a final report released September 3, 2008, by the National Toxicology Program (NTP), finding that BPA is of ?some concern? for effects on development of the prostate gland and brain and for behavioral effects in fetuses, infants and children. ?Some concern? is the midpoint of a five-level scale, ranging from negligible to serious, that the NTP uses.

Advice from toxicoligists includes the following:

Full post as published by Legal Blog on September 09, 2008 (boomark / email).