The list of adverse health effects from BPA exposure continues to grow.
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How BPA May Disrupt Brain Development
The chemical, found in many plastic products, can interfere with normal brain development.
BPA Linked with Obesity in Kids and Teens
Researchers say unhealthy diets and lack of exercise aren’t the only culprits in obesity. BPA may share some of the blame.
Study Finds Spikes in BPA From Eating Canned Soup
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.
BPA Exposure in Pregnant Women May Affect Daughters’ Behavior
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 …
BPA Exposure in Pregnancy May Be Linked to Childhood Asthma
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.
Want to Reduce Your Exposure to BPA? Cut Out Canned, Packaged Foods
(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.
Study: Even “BPA-Free” Plastics Leach Endrocrine-Disrupting Chemicals
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.
The BPA Debate: Bad Reputation and Still No Answers
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 …