FDA: Get BPA Out ASAP
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.
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.
Nena Baker | Posted 07.05.2009 | Green
The leaked minutes from industry's bisphenol A strategy session in Washington D.C. last week tell a sad and scary tale of desperation.
Sarah Janssen | Posted 07.03.2009 | Green
While the industry has characterized the campaign to eliminate BPA as "lies," they have resorted to the failed tactics of the tobacco industry by putting profits before protecting the public's health.
AP | LINDSEY TANNER | Posted 06.13.2009 | Chicago
CHICAGO — Chicago on Wednesday became the first U.S. city to adopt a ban on the sale of baby bottles and sippy cups containing the chemical BPA....
Chicago Sun-Times | Posted 06.11.2009 | Chicago
The city that blazed a consumer protection trail by banning phosphates would become the first in the nation to ban baby bottles and cups containing th...
Chicago Reader | Mick Dumke | Posted 03.14.2009 | Chicago
It was the first City Council committee meeting in memory that included presentations about heat-labile molecular bonds and synthetic estrogen. But b...
Josie Garthwaite | Posted 12.13.2008 | Green
Two highly reactive chemicals in a common plastic can leak from disposable lab equipment and skew the outcome of life science research.
Simran Sethi | Posted 10.23.2009 | Green
From Seventh Generation's discussion on "Children and Chemicals," featuring Jane Houlihan of the Environmental Working Group, pediatrician Dr. Alan ...
Sloan Barnett | Posted 12.04.2008 | Green
Just last April, Canada banned the use of BPA in baby bottles. So why is our government still allowing BPA to be used?
Simran Sethi | Posted 10.23.2009 | Green
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Susan Kane | Posted 10.23.2008 | Living
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.
Deirdre Imus | Posted 10.18.2008 | Green
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.
Paul Raeburn | Posted 10.18.2008 | Politics
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...
Paul Raeburn | Posted 10.01.2008 | Green
The Bush administration has lost any shame, in its lame-duck days, about relying on industry to demonstrate the safety of potential environmental toxins.
Paul Raeburn | Posted 06.05.2008 | Politics
If the FDA was going to rely almost entirely on industry-sponsored studies to come to its conclusions about plastics, why didn't it try to hide that?
Sarah Newman | Posted 07.07.2009 | Green