No silver lining

CDC found BPA in the urine of 93% of the 92% U. S. population.12 The Environmental Working Group found BPA in the cord blood of newborn babies.13 8% Test Methods To determine the amount of BPA a person could be exposed to by eating a “real-life” amount of canned food, No Silver Lining enlisted 20 people from 19 U. S. states and Ontario, Canada to donate 50 food and beverage containers from BPA was [...] We found that, just from eating determine the concentrations of BPA in the food within the the foods below, she could easily raise her BPA intake to can, the laboratory tested the food contents, not the cans levels known to cause health problems in animals (see themselves, for BPA. [...] More than two decades of research on the low dose effects of BPA show similar patterns of reproductive that looking at the effects of high doses of a chemical allows problems in animals and cells exposed to BPA.21. [...] In essence, this is thought to be in part due in part to BPA leaching from approach assumes that “the dose makes the poison” and some medical devices used in the NICU.27 A n   I n v e s t i g a t i o n   i n t o   B i s p h e n o l   A   i n   C a n n e d   F o o d s   |  7. Some members of the population may be exposed to (50 µg/kg/day, or 50 parts per billion per day). [...] A consensus statement signed by 38 of the world’s lead- parts of the body, including the cardiovascular ing researchers on BPA concluded that current levels of BPA system and the brain.