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California Battles to Ban BPA from Baby Bottles, Sippy Cups and Infant Formula

Lisa Kaas Boyle | Posted 09.25.2009 | Green

Read More: Fran Pavley, Sippy Cups, Senate Bill 797, Harvey Karp, Nih, Baby Bottles, Bisphenol A, Bpa, Cdc, Environmental Working Group, Physicians for Social Responsibility, Hormones, California Nurses Association, American Chemistry Council, Green News

You may not be familiar with the chemical bisphenol A, commonly known as BPA, but there is an excellent chance that BPA is very familiar with you.

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California Takes On Plastic Bottles Made With BPA

Grist.org | Posted 07.31.2009 | Green

Read More: Neurological Disorders, Infertility, Bisphenol A, Bottles, Food-Storage Containers, Plastic Bottles, Obesity, Sippy Cups, Sports Bottles, Polycarbonate Plastic, Baby Bottles, Plastic, Bpa, Diabetes, Heart Disease, Cancer, Green News

It's the stuff of a good Hollywood movie-a potentially toxic chemical lurking in the bodies of most unwitting Americans; a decade of mounting but scut...

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More Evidence That BPA is Toxic and Industry Tactics Exposed

Sarah Janssen | Posted 03.04.2009 | Living

Read More: Bpa, FDA and BPA Baby Bottles, FDA BPA, Breast Cancer, Fda, Chemicals, Dangers of Bpa, FDA Ban BPA, Toxic Chemicals, Baby Bottles, Women's Health, Health, Bpa Baby Bottles, Bpa Plastic, Cancer, Food and Drug Administration, Children's Health, Living News

New research suggests that BPA may interfere with metabolism and lead to obesity, heart disease and diabetes in humans.

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What's Worse than Chemo? A Common Toxin that Renders It Less Effective

Frances Beinecke | Posted 01.17.2009 | Green

Read More: Estrogen, Baby Bottles, Breast Cancer, Health, Chemotherapy, Plastic Bottles, Bpa, Endocrine Disruptor, Breast Cancer Treatment, Bispheno-A, Green News

Going through the insult of chemotherapy is bad enough. But discovering that it could be undermined by a hazard the FDA refuses to regulate makes it worse.

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Why Canadian Babies are Safer from Toxins: The Case for Banning BPA

Susan Kane | Posted 10.23.2008 | Living

Read More: PET Plastic Bottles, Bpa Baby Bottles, Living News, Bisphenol A, Dangers of Bpa, Parenting, Parenting Magazine, Plastic Bottles, Plastic Baby Bottles, Toxic, Fda, Parenting.com, Bpa Plastic, Cans, Baby, American Plastics Council, Health, Bpa Petition, Bush Administration, Green News, Deregulation, Bpa, Baby Bottles, Consumer Product Safety Commission, Children's Health, Toxic Chemicals, Living News

We get that more research needs to be done to truly understand the effects of this chemical on our bodies, but that doesn't mean the public should remain the guinea pigs.

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Warning: This Agency's Recommendations May be Hazardous to Your Health -- The First in a Three-Part Series

Deirdre Imus | Posted 10.18.2008 | Green

Read More: Plastics, Baby Bottles, Environmental Health, Fda, Bisphenol A, Health, Children's Environmental Health, Endocrine Disruptor, Bpa, Diabetes, Cardiovascular Disease, Children's Health, Vaccines, Toxins, Green News

There was a time when the FDA was considered the gold standard throughout the world in maintaining drug and food safety. Today, however, the agency's image is tarnished almost beyond repair.

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BPA: It's Not Taxpayers' Dollars That Are at Stake, But Taxpayers' Lives

Paul Raeburn | Posted 10.18.2008 | Politics

Read More: Aig, Cans, American Plastics Council, Bush Administration, Bisphenol A, Fda, Baby Bottles, Deregulation, Bpa, Bear Stearns, Taxpayers, Politics News

The first major epidemiological study to assess the risks of bisphenol A -- a chemical found in baby bottles, canned foods, and in 90 percent of Ameri...

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