Want to avoid BPA? Don’t eat canned food. Don’t touch credit card receipts. (I know, we have to touch them.) And of course, don’t drink water or soda that has been stored in plastic bottles.

Results showed that BPA-exposed girls were more likely to exhibit aggression and ADD, while boys to a lesser degree exhibited anxiety and depression.

The children will be evaluated as they grow older to measure the continued effect of the intra-uterine exposure.

A blog called BPAPlastic.com posted an article recently about BPA contamination in the oceans. BPA is of course bisphenol A, a synthetic estrogen and carcinogen used to strengthen and condition plastic. Scientists have found BPA contamination in seawater and sand at the shores of several different countries, said the blog, and are working to investigate further.

On the BPA controversy, the panel weighs in on the side of caution. “Studies of BPA have raised alarm bells for decades, and the evidence is still complex and open to debate. That’s life: In the real world, regulatory decisions usually must be made with ambiguous and conflicting data. The panel’s point is that we should be prudent in such situations, rather than recklessly approving chemicals of uncertain effect,” wrote Kristof.

Among the panel’s recommendations: filter your drinking water, and store it in glass or stainless steel containers.

I guarantee you’ll learn something from watching this video on bottled water, its environmental impact, its hazards to your health, and its cost. Nine million gallons were sold in the U.S. in 2008. Did you buy any? I hope not!

“BPA is just the tip of the iceberg. The plastics industry has a responsibility to ensure that its products are safe,” says Vicky Health of the journal Nature.

Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California is convinced too that BPA is harmful, and that we shouldn’t wait to ban it–there are enough studies now. She is pushing for a ban on BPA in food containers now.

The EcoMatters Daily has posted an article on plastics additive bisphenol A, BPA, calling it “the new asbestos.” The article contains tips on how and why to avoid BPA.

The Environmental Working Group, which advocates for clean water and other topics, announced it is troubled by the study’s results because it indicates BPA affects not only children, but adults.

The issue: underperformance by men. Bovinet identifies the situation as something much larger and more important than the Civil Rights Commission’s concern about equal treatment in higher education admission. The US is in the midst of the creation of a “matriarchal economy,” he says. Women influence the purchase of 80 percent of all goods and services.