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Bisphenol A

Fat, Stupid, Impotent & Dangerous: The Future Without Green Chemistry

Elizabeth Grossman | Posted 11.14.2009 | Green

Read More: Public Health, Endocrine Disruptors, Chemical Exposure, Bisphenol A, Consumer Product Safety, Homeland Security, Green Chemistry, Green News
Elizabeth Grossman

The mere presence of chemicals linked to health disorders does not mean disease will result. Yet research scientists and medical professionals now say that based on the evidence, there is reason to be concerned.

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BPA Wrecks Sex, Fouls Food -- And Probably Worse

Elaine Shannon | Posted 11.12.2009 | Green

Read More: Bpa, Sexual Dysfunction, Bisphenol A, Erectile Dysfunction, Fda, Fda-and-Bpa-Baby-Bottles, Children's Health, Green News
Elaine Shannon

A slew of recent studies are proving that even low levels of BPA exposure can lead to health complications. Unfortunately, BPA is contained in a staggeringly high amount of everyday items.

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BPA Tied To Impotence In Men

Yahoo! News | Jennifer Thomas | Posted 11.11.2009 | Living

Read More: Bpa, Platic, Relationships, Health, Impotence, Sex, Low Sex Drive, Men, Sexual Dysfunction, Bisphenol A, Sexuality, Wellness, Living News

Exposure to high levels of BPA significantly raised the risk of sexual dysfunction, including impotence and low sex drive, among Chinese factory worke...

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BPA and Food: We Can Fix This

Elaine Shannon | Posted 11.09.2009 | Green

Read More: Bpa, Food Safety, Bisphenol A, Food, Politics, Green News
Elaine Shannon

The debate about controversial plastic chemical bisphenol A (BPA), a synthetic estrogen, is heating up, with warring camps hurling data like flaming darts. BPA should not show up in any food-related products.

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Cans: A Source Of BPA

Wendy Gordon | Posted 11.04.2009 | Living

Read More: Bpa, Bisphenol A, Cans, Hormone-Disrupting-Chemicals, Plastic Bottles, Health, Living News
Wendy Gordon

Most people are probably exposed to more BPA from eating canned food or drinking canned soda than from drinking out of a polycarbonate bottle.

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Oh, So the "P" Stand For Protection -- I'd Forgotten

Carl Pope | Posted 10.03.2009 | Green

Read More: Epa, Bpa, Lisa Jackson, Bisphenol A, Green News
Carl Pope

EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson followed the "no more secrecy" principal by naming the most egregious chemicals of concern. Unless you are very unusual, these are already in your body.

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Sigg Zigs, Zags and Sags

Ken Cook | Posted 11.08.2009 | Green

Read More: Bpa, Patagonia, Sigg, Bisphenol A, Ewg, Steve Wasik, Green News
Ken Cook

Patagonia has dumped its co-branding program with SIGG over the bottle maker's blatant conning of eco-conscious consumers regarding BPA.

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SIGG: It's Not Easy Not Being Green

Elaine Shannon | Posted 10.20.2009 | Green

Read More: Bpa, Sigg, Bisphenol A, Green Celebrities, Tobey Maguire, Zac Efron, Jessica Alba, Sigg Bottles, Lucy Liu, Scarlett Johansson, Heidi Klum, Cindy Crawford, Cameron Diaz, Green News
Elaine Shannon

SIGG slogans like "Eco Logical" and "Friends don't let friends drink from plastic" are ringing hollow in the wake of the admission that the company coated its bottles' insides with BPA-based epoxy resin until August 2008.

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Why We Must Ban BPA From Products Made For Children

Harvey Karp | Posted 10.20.2009 | Living

Read More: Bpa, Connecticut, Canada, Bpa Reduction, Cdc, Senator Fran Pavley, Minnesota, Bpa Restriction, Synthetic Estrogen, Harvey Karp, Chemical, Health, Hormone, Bisphenol A, The National Toxicology Program, Dr. Harvey Karp, California Legislation, Hormonally Active Chemical, Living News
Harvey Karp

In case you missed the flurry of recent news, scientists have serious doubts about the safety of BPA (bisphenol A). And that's alarming because this h...

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SIGG Should Apologize, Offer Refunds to Consumers

Ken Cook | Posted 10.19.2009 | Green

Read More: Bpa, Sigg, Corporate Ethics, Bisphenol A, Children's Health and BPA, Environment, Water Bottles, Chemicals, Epa, Green News
Ken Cook

Nothing SIGG CEO Steve Wasik has said changed my view about their discredited efforts to mislead consumers and retailers about its products.

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Hot Water: How SIGG Lost My Trust (And Kind of Broke My Heart)

Simran Sethi | Posted 10.18.2009 | Green

Read More: Green News, Simran Sethi, Bpa, Sigg, Green Living, Oprah Winfrey, Martha Stewart, Bisphenol A, Green News
Simran Sethi

At no point did SIGG ever correct the public's misperception that their bottles were BPA-free. In fact, they profited from it.

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Can SIGG Salvage Its Brand After BPA?

Elaine Shannon | Posted 09.28.2009 | Green

Read More: Steve Wasik, Bpa, Sigg, Bisphenol A, Water Bottles, Sigg Bottles, Plastic Bottles, Sigg and BPA, Green News
Elaine Shannon

Steve Wasik, chief executive officer of SIGG, has made an astonishing admission: the company's aluminum water bottles manufactured before August 2008, were made with epoxy resin that contains bisphenol A (BPA).

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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
Lisa Kaas Boyle

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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Chemicals and the World's Expanding Waistline

Nena Baker | Posted 09.20.2009 | Living

Read More: Toxic Chemicals, Biomonitoring, Obesogens, Pfoa, Kid Safe Chemicals Act, Exercise, Bpa, Bisphenol A, Diet, Obesity, Phthalates, Living News
Nena Baker

A growing stack of laboratory research suggests that some of the chemicals used in everyday items predispose an individual to the battle of the bulge, despite normal diet and exercise.

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Can the BPA Consumer Revolt Trump K Street?

Elaine Shannon | Posted 09.05.2009 | Green

Read More: Bpa, Bisphenol A, Food Contamination, FDA and BPA Baby Bottles, Water Bottles, Baby Formula, Dangers of Bpa, FDA Ban BPA, Infants, Chemical Infant Formula, Bpa Petition, Bpa Baby Bottles, Bpa Plastic, Nalgene-Bpa, Infant Mortality, Green News
Elaine Shannon

Don't underestimate the power of a consumer revolt. In this economy, who can afford major customer losses?

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How Eden Foods Pioneered BPA-free Cans

Nena Baker | Posted 08.15.2009 | Green

Read More: Healthy Eating, Bpa, Bpa-Free, Canned Foods, Non-Gmo Project, Eden Foods, Bisphenol A, Dangers of Bpa, Green News
Nena Baker

With a growing awareness about BPA -- a commonly used compound in cans and bottles -- and its links to a range of human diseases, Eden Foods recently began labeling its cans "BPA-free."

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Self-Care = Earth Care

Avital Binshtock | Posted 08.09.2009 | Green

Read More: Bpa, Depression, Green, Fat, Earth, Psychology, Obesity, Diet, Medications, Planet, Overeating, Organic, Wellness, Self-Care, Organic Food, Health, Environment, Plastic, Food, Bisphenol A, Therapy, Pollution, Antidepressants, Green News
Avital Binshtock

What's good for our bodies is good for the planet -- and what's bad for the earth is bad for our health.

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About BPA: Do You Feel Lucky?

Elaine Shannon | Posted 08.01.2009 | Green

Read More: Endocrine Disruptor, Bpa, Bisphenol A, Cancer, Bpa Plastic, Plastic Bottles, Dangers of Bpa, Green News
Elaine Shannon

BPA, a synthetic estrogen as well as a plastics hardener, disrupts the endocrine system and causes a growing list of chronic, often permanent disorders in lab animals.

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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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Yale Scientists Discover How Exposure to BPA Causes Infertility

Elaine Shannon | Posted 07.27.2009 | Living

Read More: Bisphenol-A, FDA and BPA Baby Bottles, Bisphonol-A, Chicago Bpa Ban, Bisphenal A, Kid Safe Chemicals Act, Bpa Baby Bottles, Kid-Safe-Declaration, Ewg, Bisphenol A, Bpa Plastic, Kid Safe Chemical Act, Nalgene-Bpa, Living News
Elaine Shannon

A Yale team's findings have intensified scientists' concern that exposure BPA, a synthetic estrogen that disrupts the endocrine system, may have grave consequences for human reproduction.

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Biomonitoring: Essential for Protecting Public Health

Nena Baker | Posted 07.19.2009 | Green

Read More: Toxic Chemicals, Biomonitoring, Flame Retardants, Body Burden, Bisphenol A, Kid Safe Chemical Act, Environmental Working Group, The American Chemistry Council, Phthalates, Green News
Nena Baker

We have a right to know what's in us, no matter how disturbing.

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The BPA Diaries: An Introduction

John DeCock | Posted 07.11.2009 | Green

Read More: Toxic Chemicals, Bpa, Exposure to Chemicals, Water, Bpa Baby Bottles, Clean Water, Plastic Water Bottles, Nalgene, Toxic Toys, Water Bottles, Bisphenol A, Green News
John DeCock

BPA is a symbol of a much broader problem--our need to evaluate chemicals before they reach the marketplace, and to develop safer alternatives to chemicals we already know to be toxic.

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FDA: Get BPA Out ASAP

Sarah Newman | Posted 07.07.2009 | Green

Read More: Sarah's Social Action Snapshot, Del Monte, Alcoa, Inc. And Grocery Manufacturers Association, Environmental Working Group, The American Chemistry Council, Bisphenol A, Coca-Cola, Endocrine Disrputor, Fda, BPA Joint Trade Association, Bpa, Food and Drug Administration, Takepart, The North American Metal Packaging Alliance, Crown, Ewg, Green News
Sarah Newman

You, like millions of other Americans, probably regularly use and consume products made with Bisphenol A (BPA), a toxic chemical that is a $6 billion global industry.

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Bisphenol A: The Goods on a Bad Plastic

Nena Baker | Posted 07.05.2009 | Green

Read More: Toxic Chemicals, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Bisphenol A, Food and Drug Administration, Diethylstilbestrol, National Institute for Environomental Health Sciences, Exposure to Chemicals, Women's Health, Health, Plastic, Plastic Bottles, Green News
Nena Baker

The leaked minutes from industry's bisphenol A strategy session in Washington D.C. last week tell a sad and scary tale of desperation.

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