Frederick Vom Saal, a research biologist at the University of Missouri-Columbia, is doing his darndest to get the FDA to notice that BPA and other endocrine disrupting chemicals are bad for us. A number of other countries have taken note of research by Vom Saal and colleagues and have restricted or banned the substance. But the U.S. regulators, by and large people from a different, and older, field of science (toxicology), aren’t listening.

National Public Radio is warning consumers about eating canned soup, because of the BPA in the can linings. NPR was quoting a recent study in the Journal of the American Medical Association.

The researchers found a positive correlation between increasingly high urine levels of BPA in pregnancy and worse behavior in their daughters. For every 10-fold increase in BPA levels, girls scored at least six points worse on the questionnaires. Oddly enough, no such correlation was found for sons.

Two Minnesota colleges are joining a reported nationwide push among students to ban bottled water as a favor to the environment.

College of St. Benedict and Macalester College both are banning the sale and purchase of bottled water on campus. Bottled water results in landfills full of plastic bottles, not to mention causes consumers to pay for something that’s basically free, said students on the campuses in interviews with the Minneapolis Star-Tribune. And then there’s the BPA issue–who wants extra estrogen in their water?

Cashiers are particularly likely to get BPA exposure through the skin, handling paper receipts that are coated with the stuff as well as money that’s gotten a good dusting of it from the receipts. In fact, cashiers should wear gloves. That’s what a researcher from New York says.

The EPA, the Environmental Protection Agency, is getting into the act now. It’s concerned that BPA is harming aquatic life. In an announcement, the agency cites several studies that have found BPA to have an impact on the growth, reproduction and development of aquatic organisms, even in tiny amounts.

A new study seems to show that BPA is safe. The study, e-published June 24 in the journal Toxicology Studies, combined the efforts of researchers from the CDC, the FDA, and the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, and has gained praise as being “carefully designed.”

A researcher at the University of Missouri-Columbia, Cheryl Rosenfeld, has pinpointed a fundamental flaw with previous studies on the dangers of bisphenyl A, or BPA, a widely used plastics additive that mimics estrogen. The study was published June 6 in the journal “Environmental Health Perspectives.”

Consumers’ Union, the group that publishes the popular Consumer Reports, wants the federal government to ban BPA in food and beverage containers, in order to protect all consumers–especially children.

Trinidad and Tobago’s Newsday published an article today identifying the “Toxic Ten every day products you should avoid.” Number two (behind air fresheners) is bottled water.