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Time to Ban BPA from Food and Beverage Containers

Sen. Dianne Feinstein | Posted 12.18.2009 | Green

Read More: Ban Poisonous Additives Act, Bpas, Diane Feinstein, Dianne Feinstein, Bpa, Bisphenol A, Bpa Bisphenol A, Green News
Sen. Dianne Feinstein

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.

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More to Deal with Than Just Climate: 25 Years Since Bhopal Disaster

Andrew Winston | Posted 12.03.2009 | Green

Read More: Toxic Chemicals, Bhopal, Dupont, Copenhagen 2009, Pollution Prevention, Reach, Baby Bottles, Nike, Responsible Care, Bpa, Climate Change, SC Johnson, Toxics Release Inventory, Hp, Rohs, Green News
Andrew Winston

The issue of toxicity and chemicals is one that lies somewhat separate from the climate discussion. While it gets lost in the shuffle sometimes, the pressure on companies to deal with it just keeps rising.

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BPA, Other Pollutants Found in U.S. Cord Blood

Elaine Shannon | Posted 12.08.2009 | Green

Read More: Bpa, Children's Health, Bisphenol A, Green News
Elaine Shannon

Biomonitoring techniques -- testing blood, urine and human tissue -- are producing irrefutable evidence that human bodies are awash in toxic and endocrine-disrupting chemicals.

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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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Tests Find Wide Range of Bisphenol A in Canned Soups, Juice, and More

Naomi Starkman | Posted 11.03.2009 | Green

Read More: Bpa, Consumers Union, Fda, Canned Foods, Consumer Reports, Green News
Naomi Starkman

Consumer Reports' latest tests of canned foods, including soups, juice, tuna, and green beans, have found that almost all of the 19 name-brand foods tested contain measurable levels of Bisphenol A (BPA).

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Personal Care Products Pose Unrecognized Toxic Risks To Children

Samuel S. Epstein | Posted 10.06.2009 | Living

Read More: Bpa, Baby Care Products, Environmental Working Group, Childhood Cancer, Phthalates, Triclosan, Organic Consumers ASsociation, Living News
Samuel S. Epstein

Babies are about 100 times more sensitive to carcinogens than adults. Infants and young children have immature liver enzymes, which give them only limited ability to detoxify carcinogens.

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

Carl Pope | Posted 12.02.2009 | 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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Recycling Plastic: What a Waste

Lisa Kaas Boyle | Posted 11.16.2009 | Green

Read More: Environmental, Recycle, Styrene, Gyre, Single Use Plastics, Plastic-Pollution, Bpa, Reuse, Body Burden, Birth Defects, Cancer, Plastic Bottles, Petrochemical, Phthalates, Green Chemistry, Sups, Green News
Lisa Kaas Boyle

Every day, single-use plastics ("SUPs" bottles, bags, packaging, utensils, etc.) made from petrochemicals are thrown away in huge quantities after one use, but they will last virtually forever.

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Sigg Says Sorry, Patagonia Dumps Sigg

Sarah Newman | Posted 11.10.2009 | Green

Read More: Sarah's Social Action Snapshot, Coca-Cola, Del Monte, Chicago, Takepart, Patagonia, Bpa, Sigg, California, Green News
Sarah Newman

The anti-BPA movement is spreading nationwide. Chicago has already banned the toxin and legislation is currently pending in California

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Eco Etiquette: How To Ditch Disposable Food Storage

Jennifer Grayson | Posted 11.10.2009 | Green

Read More: Reusable Containers, Polypropylene, Green Kitchen, Refrigerator Dishes, Green Food Storage, Recycled Foil, Bpa, No. 5 Plastic, Green Living, Preserve, Pyrex, Green News
Jennifer Grayson

Any ideas on how to store food without all the cling wrap, foil, and disposable plastic bags and containers and keep it reasonably fresh? -Karina Be...

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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 CEO: I'm Sorry

Steve Wasik | Posted 10.23.2009 | Green

Read More: Bpa, Environment, Sigg, Water Bottles, Bpa Water Bottles, Green News
Steve Wasik

I am writing to apologize. As Chief Executive Officer of SIGG, a leading maker of reusable water bottles, I made a mistake when I decided not to announce that our old bottle liner contained trace amounts of bisphenol A.

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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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Sneaky Sigg Sold BPA

Sarah Newman | Posted 09.29.2009 | Green

Read More: Sarah's Social Action Snapshot, Kleen Kanteen, Polycarbonate Plastic, Chicago, Fda, Sigg Bottles, Takepart, Bpa, Nalgene, Sigg, Environmental Working Group, California, Green News
Sarah Newman

Millions of others joined the Sigg bandwagon after learning about the horrors of many reusable plastic bottles that contain BPA or polycarbonate. However, it seems like we were duped.

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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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Could Endocrine-Disrupting Chemicals in Vaccines Cause Autism?

Deirdre Imus | Posted 09.11.2009 | Living

Read More: Deirdre Imus Environmental Center for Pediatric Oncology, Environmental Health, Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals, Toxics, Pediatrics, Chemicals, Detox, Vaccines, Toxins, Epa, Mercury, Environment, Bpa, Autism, Fire Retardants, Children's Health, Environmental Chemicals, Phthalates, Edcs, Living News
Deirdre Imus

Like it or not, vaccines are likely the largest source of one-time exposure to endocrine-disrupting chemicals in early infant development.

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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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