According to a startling new report by the Environmental Working Group, high levels of bisphenol-A (BPA)—a chemical that consumer advocates are trying to have banned from food and beverage containers—can be found in an unlikely source: paper receipts.
The California Assembly has passed a bill to ban the plastic additive Bisphenol A (BPA), which is used as a liner in food and beverage cans and in hard plastic containers like baby bottles and cups. The bill would ban BPA by January 2012 in feeding products for children under the age of three, and in all infant formula by July 2012.
The bill will next return to the Senate, which previously passed its own version, for a reconciliation vote. If passed, it will go to the governor to be signed into law.
A report by the National Workgroup for Safe Markets urges pregnant women to limit their intake of canned food and drinks, after finding that 92% of food from metal cans is contaminated with bisphenol A (BPA).
An estrogen-like chemical, BPA is used in a wide range of products. The National Toxicology Program has stated “some concern” that BPA can affect brain development, behavior, and prostate gland heath in children, both before and after birth.
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