Coca-Cola’s top executives said last week, that it would be premature to stop using Bisphenol A (BPA) an industrial chemical, that has been present in many hard plastic bottles including metal based food and beverage cans since the 1960’s—the Food & Drug Administration shares the perspective of the Natl Toxicology Program, that recent studies provide reason for some concern that the potential effects of BPA on the brain, behavior and prostate gland of fetuses, infants and children.
BPA has been banned in Canadian Baby Bottles according to USA Today likewise the City of Chicago, Suffolk County NY, Connecticut, Massachusetts have banned BPA from food containers, other states including California, New Mexico, Maryland, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Vermont have pending legislation to ban the chemical additive.
More here The Independent UK
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