Whether you realize it or not, there’s a good chance that you are being exposed to bisphenol F (BPF). There’s even a fair chance that you are highly exposed. If so, should you be concerned and what should you do about it?
Recent
media stories have reported on two new scientific studies involving BPA’s
effects on birth weight. One study
reported a statistical association between prenatal exposure to BPA and increased
birth weight, while the other reported an association with decreased birth
weight.
Both
the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) and the U.S. Food and Drug
Administration (FDA) have recently released assessments that strongly support
the safety of bisphenol A (BPA).
For many years, scientists around the world have been intensely interested in bisphenol A (BPA)
There’s
an emerging trend, of late, in the seemingly endless saga of the chemical
bisphenol A (BPA),
which is most commonly used to make polycarbonate plastic and epoxy resins. Although the BPA saga has not yet become
completely passé, much of the attention that had been given to BPA is now
focused on alt
For
quite a few years, one of the most popular chemicals for scientific inquiry has
been bisphenol
A (BPA).
Scientists around the world have been conducting a diverse array of
studies aimed at understanding whether BPA poses a risk to human health.
Does BPA make you fat?
In
June 2013, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) answered the question
“Is BPA safe?” with a simple
and unambiguous answer – “Yes.” In
contrast, countless words have been written over many years suggesting exactly
the opposite.
The subject of endocrine disruption is not particularly new, with extensive scientific and regulatory attention to endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs) over the last 20 years or so. A common definition, from the World Health Organization/International Programme on Chemical Safety, is:
It was the late astronomer and author Carl Sagan who popularized the phrase “extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence,” and originated the closely related concept of scientific skepticism. In the case discussed here, skeptics we should be.
A
recent
article discussed the question of causation versus
statistical association in cross-sectional epidemiology studies that evaluate
the pote
That
question is particularly relevant this week in light of numerous media articles
reporting that exposure to a common chemical is linked to obe
Last week, a study published in the journal Human Reproduction reported that bisphenol-A (BPA), a compound widely used to make polycarbonate plastic and epoxy resins, altered maturation of human oocytes in vitro
