The list of diseases and disorders now scientifically connected toBPA is lengthy and scary. Many are considered to be at epidemicproportions, even though we have yet to find cures. They includeobesity, infertility, early puberty, prostate disease, breastcancer, impaired immune function, decreased anti-oxidant enzymelevels, changes in brain chemistry, and on and on the list goes. One can easily understand why a huge increase in endocrine-likesubstances could throw the human body into biological disorder.Hormones regulate most bodily functions, including the reproductivesystem, the immune system and so on. When these systemsmalfunction, the whole body is rendered out of whack. When the FDA refused in March of this year, as it has several timesin the past, to ban BPA, it noted that more study is needed. Overall, the current literature cannot yet be fully interpretedfor biological or experimental consistency or for relevance tohuman health. Part of the difficulty for evaluating consistencylies in reconciling findings of different studies that usedifferent experimental designs and different specific behavioraltests to measure the same dimension of behavior. But knowledgeable, credible scientists call the agency s posture aruse and say there is plenty of data to back up a ban. One of thosescientists, John Peterson Pete Myers, told me scores of studiesworldwide point directly to BPA as inherently harmful to humanhealth. Myers is founder, CEO and chief scientist of Environmental HealthSciences, a Virginia-based nonprofit group. He holds a doctorate inthe biological sciences from the University of California, Berkeleyand co-wrote, with Dr. Theo Colborn and Dianne Dumanoski OurStolen Future (1996), a book that explores how contaminationthreatens fetal development. Myers is one of 36 scientists to conclude in a peer-reviewedcommentary that an FDA draft decision on Bisphenol A usedunacceptable criteria for selecting data and depended heavily upona key paper that was fatally flawed. If BPA were banned, it would definitely disrupt the mighty andpowerful U.S. chemical industry, which according to the U.S.Environmental Protection Agency causes the release each year ofmore than 1 million pounds of the chemical into the environment. Even so, that formidable agency is considering rule-making thatmight, identify BPA on the Concern List as a substance that maypresent an unreasonable risk of injury to the environment .. Wow! There s decisive action by our government! We need protection and we need it now. The chemical industry mustbe made to create a safe alternative to BPA and phase it in whilephasing out BPA. Will that happen anytime soon? Not as long asthere s a dollar more to be squeezed out of doing things theold-fashioned (to wit, cheap) way. Bonnie Erbe is a TV host and writes this column for Scripps HowardNews Service. E-mail bonnie. scrippshoward@gmail.com. The e-commerce company in China offers quality products such as China Airbag Reset Tools , China Car Key Shell, and more. For more , please visit Car Diagnostics Tools today!
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