Bisphenol A Roundup
Since it's detected at low levels in 95% of us and since Americans have been exposed to it for more than 50 years you'd think someone would have noticed if exposure to bisphenol A (BPA) were responsible for widespread illness, deformity and death. Apparently not, at least not if the findings from a recent wave of BPA studies are to be believed.
The new findings are, in no particular order, that BPA: (a) damages sperm (b) inhibits the normal development of ovaries (c) alters brain development (d) causes premature birth (e) may be a carcinogen like DES (f) damages blood cells (g) activates breast cancer cells (h) impairs the body's defenses against colon cancer especially in women; and, (i) makes offspring anti-social and neurotic. And those are just a few of the "findings" published in the last two months. Obviously the world that existed before 1950 or so, before BPA was everywhere used to seal bacteria out of food and dental cavities, had to have been a much healthier and more peaceful one. Alas.
