ecochildsplay.com - 12/16/2009
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BPA-Free Kids Act would ban the hormone disrupter from kids' products.
Could the BPA era of chemically altering our children finally be over? Oh, how we have ranted over the years! From autism to erectile dysfunction , BPA has been linked to many ...
Tell Del Monte: No more BPA!
enviroblog.org 8/11/2009 — Several months ago, EWG helped break news of a secret meeting convened at a fancy private club in Washington, where lobbyists from the chemical industry and food companies hatched a plot to mislead consumers about the risks of bisphenol-A (BPA), a toxic chemical used in many food containers. ...
SIGG, on the record: An interview with CEO Steve Wasik
zrecommends.com 9/1/2009 — SIGG made headlines when it announced that it had stopped producing aluminum water bottles with a lining that contained BPA. But they weren't the kind of headlines it wanted. Many consumers had already believed that SIGG bottles were BPA-free, and despite the lack of such explicit language in ...
Why Health Canada’s new BPA study has nothing but critics
zrecommends.com 8/3/2009 — Health Canada is in a fine mess at the moment, and there's only one way to unravel it. Trouble is, it involves opening up a controversial study about bisphenol-A in "BPA-free" plastics to scrutiny it may not be ready for.
Last month Health Canada published a study on bisphenol-A in ...
What’s The Deal With BPA?
greenmommyguide.com 9/23/2008 — Bisphenol A, otherwise known as BPA, is a chemical that many average Americans knew nothing about but is one of the most prevalent chemicals used in consumer products, such as plastics, food and drink liners, and is even found in drinking water. That ...
When it comes to “BPA-free,” consumers have nothing to fear but fear itself
zrecommends.com 8/18/2009 — The current status of bisphenol-A, which is teetering somewhere between near-unilateral corporate disavowal and a patchwork of outright bans, is what it is because we - parents, consumers, and part-time, practical activists - made it that way. That means we also have the power to decide what ...
California moves toward listing BPA as reproductive toxin
non-toxickids.net 2/12/2010 — (guest post from The Breast Cancer Fund ) Today the California Environmental Protection Agency signaled its intent to add bisphenol A (BPA) to the state’s official list of chemicals known to cause cancer or birth defects, adding to the mounting evidence that the plastics chemical should be ...
BPA Exposure Harmful To Fetuses
growingyourbaby.com 3/30/2010 —
An analysis of more than 80 studies on (BPA) has found that exposure to this chemical is more widespread than previously thought. Despite measures to ban BPA from infant bottles, children may still be at risk from exposure before they were born.
Laura Vandenberg, Ph.D, ...
BPA, its everywhere you don’t want it to be
crunchydomesticgoddess.com 11/11/2009 — This weekend as my friend Melissa was showing me her cool pressure canner and all of the foods she’s canned with it, we started talking about the presence of BPA in most store-bought canned goods. The presence of BPA (bisphenol-A) in canned ...
A fat hormone is linked to Alzheimer's disease —
Booster Shots 12/15/2009
Leptin, a hormone that is central to controlling metabolism and weight, also appears important in the development of dementia and Alzheimer's disease, according to a growing body of research. In a study published today, researchers found people ...
Life expectancy reaches new high —
Booster Shots 12/16/2009
The average American lives 77 years and 11 months -- the highest life expectancy in history, according to statistics released today by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Since 2000, life expectancy has increased by about 1.1 years. White ...
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