In its final report, the National Toxicology Program (NTP) identifies “some concern” for potential adverse effects stemming from exposure to BPA, a component of many epoxy resins and polycarbonate plastics. Many baby bottles, plastic beverage bottles, and the coating that lines all canned foods are made with BPA. The NTP reviewed an extensive body of scientific study involving animals and, citing a dearth of human studies from which to draw conclusions, reports the potential for adverse effects on developing children “cannot be dismissed,” according to NTP’s associate director, John Bucher, PhD.
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This comes at the same time as the National Institutes of Health says it has limited concern for BPA.
But then the Yale School of Medicine released it’s findings of a study in which they gave monkeys the EPA’s ”safe” dose of BPA and found negative impacts on memory and moods.
The bottom line is; Your children, your decision.
Tags: baby bottles, BPA. Bisphenol-A, National Institute of Environmental Health, National Toxicology Program, Yale School of Medicine
