An End To The BPA Controversy? Toxic Effects Not Reproduced
Wednesday, January 2, 2013 - 16:10
in Health & Medicine
BPA - Bisphenol A - has been besieged by so much negative public relations that it is almost indefensible. Like smoking, people are going to blame it for everything they can. But research is sometimes about inconvenient truths and so a three-year study using more than 2,800 mice that was not able to replicate a series of previous studies finding harm has to be mentioned. The authors are quick to note they are not declaring BPA safe, rather just that they could not reproduce the developmental effects of BPA in babies in the womb - which used to be the definition of safe. The estrogenic compound found in plants, genistein, was also studied and results of other studies could not be reproduced. read more