By Cate Nelson •
September 11, 2009
In the wake of the Sigg/bisphenol-A controversy, a top researcher and CEO of Environmental Health Sciences fills us in on the news: endocrine disruptors such as BPA and phthalates are indeed toxic at low-level doses, too. And they’re toxic in entirely different ways than at the traditional high-dose testing indicates.
The way the tests work today is we think that by testing at high doses we’re gonna see everything. So that once we get to a dose that’s intermediate and we don’t see anything, we’re golden.
But the science is telling us that at really low doses as contaminants mimic hormones. They can have effects that are totally unpredictable by what happens at high doses.
Pete Myers spoke to Living on Earth about the consequences of current testing.
By Jamie Ervin •
October 15, 2008
BPA is a hot topic. Is it a concern or not? According to the FDA, BPA is okay at the levels found in our food and storage containers which hold our food. I am not one to trust the FDA to decide what is safe for my child. This is the same organization that says artificial colorants are okay in foods, the same colorants that cause my six year olds face to go red and blotchy (among other reactions that the medical community will try to say aren’t related, because food doesn’t affect behavior they say).
For my children, no amount of chemical exposure is safe. I don’t put it on their bodies. I don’t feed them preservatives, dyes or artificial flavorings. Why would I allow them to use products that could leach potentially harmful chemicals like BPA into their food or water? My children aren’t going to be the guinea pigs for this safety test.
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In the wake of the Sigg/bisphenol-A controversy, a top researcher and CEO of Environmental Health Sciences fills us in on the news: endocrine disruptors such as BPA and phthalates are indeed toxic at low-level doses, too. And they’re toxic in entirely different ways than at the traditional high-dose testing indicates.
