We can do it: Act now to get BPA out of baby products
Posted November 16, 2010 in Health and the Environment
Readers, we need your help in the next few days. Within 48 hours, the Senate will likely vote on a measure that would ban the toxic chemical Bisphenol A (BPA) from children’s feeding products. Go here and urge your senators to vote YES and protect children from developmental problems tied to BPA.
And now for a little background. There is good scientific evidence that everyday exposures to BPA is are not safe. BPA mimics the hormone estrogen in the body, and has been linked to problems with brain development, behavioral changes, early puberty and an increased susceptibility to breast and prostate cancer. Like many of us, you have heard the news and already switched to a BPA-free water bottle or sought out BPA-free products for your kids.
If you’re lucky enough to live in one of the seven states that have already banned BPA in children’s products, you’re in even better shape. But unfortunately, BPA is still in our food supply, and millions of children and pregnant women are still being directly exposed to the chemical in their formula, food, and beverages.
The Food and Drug Administration could do something about the BPA problem at the national level. But the agency has been slow-walking regulation of BPA and the industries that make and market BPA products are determined to keep this toxic chemical in our food supply. More research is always welcome but at this point there are serious concerns about on-going BPA exposures and FDA has not been able to reassure us or their scientific advisors that current levels of exposure are safe. FDA should be protecting public health and not corporate interests.
So Senator Dianne Feinstein of California plans to offer an amendment to the Food Safety Modernization Act (S. 510) to ban BPA in a set of children’s products. The bill is coming up for a final vote this week, and it’s our chance to eliminate one source of exposure to BPA for a particularly vulnerable group: developing infants and children.
But it may not happen without you. Please visit this page and make sure your Senators know you want BPA out of kids’ products.
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Vance Decker — Nov 18 2010 10:11 PM
You can censor my profanity all you want, you're still an alarmist stooge spreading disinformation!
You should be ashamed of yourself!
Ian @ NRDC — Nov 18 2010 10:33 PM
Vance –
You do indeed have a constitutionally protected right to be as profane and intemperate as you like — on your blog. Here, we ask for basic civility.