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New BPA Scrutiny (bisphenol-A) by the Environmental Protection Agency
20100329 - The Environmental Protection agency plans to add bisphenol-A, or BPA, a plastic widely used in food packaging and plastics baby bottles to its list of chemicals of concern ... The agency will require new studies of concentrations ... in surface water, groundwater and drinking water ... require manufacturers ... to provide test data to help evaluate effects on growth, reproduction and development in aquatic organisms and wildlife ... The action follows a Food and Drug Administration ... Senator Charles E. Schumer ... chided the environmental agency for not including BPA on a list of chemicals that would be more strictly regulated ... Concerns about BPA ... chemical seeps into food and baby formula, and that nearly everyone is exposed to it, starting in the womb. (by J. M. Broder in New York Times). |
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