The Health Patch
BPA, Go Away
Massachusetts has become the eighth state to ban the sale of baby bottles containing the toxic substance, Bisphenol-A.
On Thursday, Deval Patrick won his bid to ban the toxic chemical Bisphenol-A, or BPA, from all baby bottles and sippy cups sold in Massachusetts. BPA is a manufactured chemical commonly used in the substance which lines almost all canned food s and drinks. It is also known as “polycarbonate” and is used in the plastic material in baby bottles, sippy cups and other semi-disposable plastic food storage products bearing the number 7 on its label. When BPA is leached from the inner lining of bottles and other plastic-wear, it enters the consumer’s bloodstream. According to the Massachusetts Board of Public Health, which issued their first Public Health Announcement on the toxicity of BPA in August 2009, the side effects of chronic BPA …
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Larissa Watt
6:45 pm on Sunday, December 19, 2010
What a great idea- take your bottle to the dump day. Lol. Thankfully we have some regulation in our society for food safety, chemicals, etc but it is not up to the standards it should be. Americans assume b/c a product is on our shelf that it is safe and unfortunately that is not the case. I was appalled when. I came across cosmeticsafetydatabase.org and found that many ingredients in my "natural… more ›