http://www.metafilter.com/tags/bisphenola Posts tagged with 'bisphenola' at MetaFilter. Sun, 25 May 2008 18:08:38 -0800 Sun, 25 May 2008 18:08:38 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/71977/Would%2Dyou%2Dlike%2Dobesity%2Dwith%2Dthat <a href="http://www.latimes.com/features/health/la-he-closer19-2008may19,0,5827044.story">Bisphenol A</a>. Canada is <a href="http://www.bclocalnews.com/lifestyles/19141584.html">banning it in baby bottles</a>, while the California State Senate recently <a href="http://www.mercurynews.com/breakingnews/ci_9271721">passed</a> <a href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/05/15/BAM610NCFR.DTL">a bill</a> to ban it in child care products. Even the <a href="http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/politics/la-na-plastic15-2008may15,0,4837206.story">US Senate</a> is getting in on the action. Bill Moyers thought it was interesting enough to run <a href="http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/05232008/watch2.html">this Expose story</a>. In addition to the previously discussed cancer risk, it may also <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/healthNews/idUSL1482214420080514">cause obesity</a>. Is this <a href="http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/letters/bal-ed.le.letters02m4may02,0,509646.story">pointless overreaction</a>, or is it an example of government's <a href="http://epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Files.View&FileStore_id=a5ef042e-26fc-41f1-9af1-a2aa1d16f88b">failure to act</a> [PDF] in the face of industry pressure? The FDA, was, after all, tasked with screening such endocrine disruptors <a href="http://www.mindfully.org/Pesticide/EDSTAC-Baltz-28aug98.htm">over ten years ago</a>. Previously on the <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/60090/I-would-love-to-see-it-banished-off-the-face-of-the-Earth">blue</a> and <a href="http://ask.metafilter.com/33382/Are-Nalgene-water-bottles-really-unsafe">green</a>. tag:metafilter.com,2008:site.71977 Sun, 25 May 2008 18:08:38 -0800 ban bisphenola chemical fda plastic wierdo