David Stuart
+Environmental Health | November 23, 2011

Study Finds Spikes in BPA From Eating Canned Soup

By Alice Park

We may not know all the ways in which the chemical bisphenol-A (BPA) affects our health, but we can be sure that we’re exposed to it frequently — BPA is used in plastic products and lines nearly all food and beverage cans.

+Environmental Health | October 24, 2011

BPA Exposure in Pregnant Women May Affect Daughters’ Behavior

By Alice Park
Dick Patrick

A new study finds that exposure to bisphenol A before birth may lead to behavior problems in girls by age 3. The findings, published in Pediatrics, promise to heat up the debate over the safety of BPA, the ubiquitous chemical found in water bottles, linings of cans and even on the register receipts we get [...]

+Environmental Health | May 2, 2011

BPA Exposure in Pregnancy May Be Linked to Childhood Asthma

By Bryan Walsh
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Endocrine disruption, diabetes, obesity — to the list of ills potentially associated with exposure to the chemical bisphenol-A (BPA), you can add one more: childhood asthma.

+Environmental Health | March 30, 2011

Want to Reduce Your Exposure to BPA? Cut Out Canned, Packaged Foods

By Bryan Walsh
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(Updated) There’s a lot we don’t know about bisphenol-A (BPA), a common chemical used in food packaging and polycarbonate plastics that may also mess with hormones.

+Environmental Health | March 8, 2011

Study: Even “BPA-Free” Plastics Leach Endrocrine-Disrupting Chemicals

By Bryan Walsh
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Plastics. They seem so…inert. Slow to erode or decay, with a biodegradation time measured in the hundreds of years, plastics appear cut off from the organic environment in the way that no other product is, safe and secure and sterile.

+Regulation | September 8, 2010

The BPA Debate: Bad Reputation and Still No Answers

By Meredith Melnick
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Bisphenol-A (BPA), the endocrine-disrupting chemical in plastics — and the go-to environmental health villain — has vexed public-health experts for at least a decade. Reams of inconclusive and conflicting studies on the health effects of the compound, which is found in plastic food containers, water bottles and the epoxy lining of cans, have hampered a [...]