Time to Ban BPA from Food and Beverage Containers
No responsible parent would expose their infant to cigarette smoke or car exhaust. But every day in America, millions of infants are exposed to dangerous chemicals hiding in plain view.
No responsible parent would expose their infant to cigarette smoke or car exhaust. But every day in America, millions of infants are exposed to dangerous chemicals hiding in plain view.
Elaine Shannon | Posted 12.08.2009 | Green
Biomonitoring techniques -- testing blood, urine and human tissue -- are producing irrefutable evidence that human bodies are awash in toxic and endocrine-disrupting chemicals.
Elizabeth Grossman | Posted 11.14.2009 | Green
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.
Elaine Shannon | Posted 11.12.2009 | Green
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.
Yahoo! News | Jennifer Thomas | Posted 11.11.2009 | Living
Exposure to high levels of BPA significantly raised the risk of sexual dysfunction, including impotence and low sex drive, among Chinese factory worke...
Elaine Shannon | Posted 11.09.2009 | Green
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.
Wendy Gordon | Posted 11.04.2009 | Living
Most people are probably exposed to more BPA from eating canned food or drinking canned soda than from drinking out of a polycarbonate bottle.
Carl Pope | Posted 12.02.2009 | Green
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.
Ken Cook | Posted 11.08.2009 | Green
Patagonia has dumped its co-branding program with SIGG over the bottle maker's blatant conning of eco-conscious consumers regarding BPA.
Elaine Shannon | Posted 10.20.2009 | Green
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.
Harvey Karp | Posted 10.20.2009 | Living
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...
Ken Cook | Posted 10.19.2009 | Green
Nothing SIGG CEO Steve Wasik has said changed my view about their discredited efforts to mislead consumers and retailers about its products.
Simran Sethi | Posted 10.18.2009 | Green
At no point did SIGG ever correct the public's misperception that their bottles were BPA-free. In fact, they profited from it.
Elaine Shannon | Posted 09.28.2009 | Green
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).
Lisa Kaas Boyle | Posted 09.25.2009 | Green
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.
Nena Baker | Posted 09.20.2009 | Living
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.
Elaine Shannon | Posted 09.05.2009 | Green
Don't underestimate the power of a consumer revolt. In this economy, who can afford major customer losses?
Nena Baker | Posted 08.15.2009 | Green
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."
Avital Binshtock | Posted 08.09.2009 | Green
What's good for our bodies is good for the planet -- and what's bad for the earth is bad for our health.
Elaine Shannon | Posted 08.01.2009 | Green
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.
Grist.org | Posted 07.31.2009 | Green
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...
Elaine Shannon | Posted 07.27.2009 | Living
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.
Nena Baker | Posted 07.19.2009 | Green
We have a right to know what's in us, no matter how disturbing.
John DeCock | Posted 07.11.2009 | Green
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.
Sen. Dianne Feinstein | Posted 12.18.2009 | Green