Canada To Label Plastic Ingredient "Toxic"

New York Times:

OTTAWA -- The Canadian government is said to be ready to declare as toxic a chemical widely used in plastics for baby bottles, beverage and food containers as well as linings in food cans.

A person with knowledge of the government's chemical review program spoke on the condition he not be named because of a confidentiality agreement. He said the staff work to list the compound, called bisphenol-a, or B.P.A., as a toxic chemical was complete and was recently endorsed by a panel of outside scientists.

A public announcement by Health Canada may come as early as Wednesday but could be delayed until the end of May. Canada would be the first country to make a health finding against B.P.A., which has been shown to disrupt the hormonal systems of animals. The department's decision was first reported in The Globe and Mail, a Toronto newspaper, on Tuesday.

Read the whole story: New York Times

Comments

[MetalCanuck]

Thank god, this was the only thing Harper ever did right.

[aigeanta]

Plastic is evil. Go back to glass.

[montemalone]

Do the selfish, hateful, greedy bastards in this country think that they're immune to the poisons in our air, soil, water, and food? Or do they really believe that the Great Gobbledy-Gook in the Sky is going to rapture them naked up to heaven before they're worm food?
I'm about ready to give up meat and start growing my own vegetable garden. Don't know what I'm supposed to do about the air and water.

[ErnestineBass]

And to think purveyors of dairy products in THIS country have been sued for putting a label on their products stating that they DO NOT contain bovine growth hormones.

What's happened to America?

[outnow]

You know the answer to your own question. I suspect that you are being sarcastic. America is no more. It is all about profits for multinational corporations.

[almoguy]

Perhaps an amendment can be made to the Patriot Act that address the distruction /abuse of basic American ideals caused by said Multinatio­nals...oh sorry I was dreaming again!