Personal Injury Law

Proof of Dangers of Plastic Chemical Bisphenol A (BPA) Gets Stronger

In an earlier blog, we wrote about conflicting conclusions being drawn concerning the safety of bisphenol A, or BPA.  The National Toxicology Program (NTP), which is part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), found that BPA is of “some concern”  - the midpoint of a five-level scale - for effects on development of the prostate gland and brain and for behavioral effects in fetuses, infants and children.  In contrast, this past August the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) concluded that the small amounts of BPA that leach out of containers and into food or milk are not dangerous.  But more recently a Food and Drug Administration advisory board voted to say that the agency ignored critical evidence suggesting that BPA could harm children. 

Full post as published by Legal Blog on November 07, 2008 (boomark / email).