Tag: BPA
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Scientist Calls for Toxicology Studies on Chemicals in Food and Beverage Containers
Researchers in Canada have published a warning in Science about the leaching of bioactive contaminants from disposable laboratory plastic ware such as test tubes, pipette tips and culture plates. They demonstrated that some lubricating, or slip, agents (“exemplified by oleamide”) and cationic biocides (DiHEMDA) used in manufacturing the plastics “leach from laboratory plasticware into a standard…
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Effort to List Bisphenol A Under Prop. 65 Slows Due to Staffing Shortages
California EPA’s Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) has reportedly delayed a decision about whether to list bisphenol A (BPA) under Proposition 65 because it lacks sufficient staff to complete needed research. OEHHA’s Developmental & Reproductive Toxicant Identification Committee (DART) was apparently scheduled to decide whether to include BPA on the list of chemicals…
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Advisory Panel Issues Draft Peer Review Criticizing FDA’s Bisphenol A Exposure Assessment
A subcommittee of FDA’s Science Board has released its peer review of the agency’s draft assessment of bisphenol A (or BPA) for use in food contact applications. The FDA’s draft assessment concluded, on the basis of industry-funded studies, that “an adequate margin of safety exists for BPA at current levels of exposure from food contact…
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Health Canada to Ban Baby Bottles Manufactured with Bisphenol A
The Canadian government has reportedly declared that bisphenol A (or BPA) is a hazardous substance, and Health Canada will begin drafting regulations to prohibit the importation, sale and promotion of baby bottles made with the chemical. The agency’s scientists apparently contend that the primary exposure for newborns and infants is through the use of such…
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Federal Agencies Seek Input to Focus Future Research on Bisphenol A
NIEHS and the National Toxicology Program (NTP) have published a request for information, seeking “input on a number of key research areas that have been identified in recent evaluations of bisphenol A (BPA).” Submissions should be made online by December 1, 2008. Among the research needs identified are (i) “Studies of the concentrations of BPA…
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State AGs Ask Baby Bottle Manufactures to Remove Bisphenol A
The attorneys general for Connecticut, Delaware and New Jersey have written to 11 companies asking them to discontinue the use of bisphenol A (BPA) in baby bottles and infant formula packaging. Attorneys General Richard Blumenthal (Conn.), Anne Milgram (N.J.) and Joseph R. Biden III (Del.) apparently asked manufactures to “affirm [their] commitment to safe products…