“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 FDA has issued a statement saying it is looking into BPA safety, after enduring years of clamor on the subject from critics.

In this study, human placenta cells from five new mothers were cultured in a laboratory, and BPA was added in a variety of doses found in the blood of pregnant women and fetuses. The doses ranged from .002 to 200 micrograms per milliliter. The placenta cells were exposed to the BPA at these levels for 24 hours and then examined for damage.

Significant damage was found. Three types of damage were measured; all were significantly higher than the control. But one type of damage measured much higher at the lower dose of BPA, a particularly troubling finding.

On the USA Today BPA page, Frederick Vom Saal, a professor at the University of Missouri-Columbia, speaks on an audio recording. While the BPA concentrations used are low, he says, “this is a phenomenally potent chemical.” BPA has been linked with cancer and with late puberty in boys, early puberty in girls. The FDA has maintained that it thinks it is safe, but is currently reviewing its position, in the face of growing outcry.

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.

From Multi-Pure: “We use food grade quality polypropylene for
our plastics. The NSF tests for this as well. We are certified by the
NSF. We do not add anything into the water from our Systems.”

The problem with BPA, wrote Lee, is that it is an unstable polymer. This means that molecules can easily fall apart, responding to conditions such as heat, acid, or base. Once the bonds break, the BPA is free to leach out of the plastic and be absorbed into the food or beverage, and into the person consuming the food or beverage.

For the first time in its 93-year-history, the organization issued a scientific statement a few days ago and declared its itention to engage in lobbying. The subject of both the statement and the lobbying is their hope to “decrease human exposure” to BPA and other endocrine-disrupting agents.