 aklimento says: The global chemical industry produces about 6 billion pounds of BPA annually, generating at least $6 billion in annual sales. The value of BPA-based manufactured goods, from cell phones and computers to epoxy coatings and dental bindings, is probably incalculable. Thoughscientists have known since the 1930s that BPA mimics estrogen in the body , for unrelated reasons, the chemical serves as an essential building block of hard, clear polycarbonate plastics and tough epoxy resins, ubiquitous materials in the modern world. "It's probably the largest volume endocrine-disrupting chemical in commerce," says Vom Saal. "This stuff is in everything." Because plastics made with BPA break down easily when heated, microwaved, washed with strong detergents or wrapped around acidic foods like tomatoes, trace amounts of the potent hormone leach into food from epoxy lacquer can linings, polycarbonate bottles and other plastic food packaging. The chemical industry can expected to fight aggressively against more regulation. Earlier this year, the industry spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to defeat a California legislative proposal to ban BPA in food packaging. The Chemistry Council and allied companies and industry groups hired an army of lobbyists, including Navigators LLC,the Washington firm that ran Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's 2003 campaign and his 2004 budget reform drive. Tactics included an industry email to food banks charging that a BPA ban would mean the end of distributions of canned goods for the poor. The industry's scorched-earth approach has caused many advocates for toxic law reform, frustrated with skirmi... Those "modern" diagnosis of of irritated bladder and metabolic syndrome are first signs of chronic poisoning by bisphenol A. Now psychiatrists are treating an epidemic of depression with massive mind altering antipsychotic drugs, disregarding of age, even toddlers. Did we forget the lesson with thalidomide? From any synthetic chemical we have to expect wide range of unpredictable adverse reactions. They inflicting such harm with their side effects, that we are even forgetting about our initial good intentions. It is also being looked at for causing birth deformities in aquatic animals. http://clipmarks.com/clipmark/60729AF1-F95A-4B85-877B-47F22B89839E/ |
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