A Harvard University study has recently confirmed that continued drinking of liquids from Plastic bottles that contain Bisphenol A or BPA as it is sometime called will result in a build up of the chemical in people’s bodies.
This interesting article in a recent copy of the Boston Globe, has again raised concerns about the use of this chemical and it’s effects when coming into contact with humans!
Despite the USA FDA and the UK’s FSA having not committed to an outright ban, Chicago looks like it will be the first city to introduce a complete ban on all plastic bottles that contain BPA. It’s unclear as yet if this will be adopted countrywide. But at least one Canadian Manufacture abandoned the use of BPA in it plastic bottles in late 2008 which was followed by a government ban on BPA in baby products.
With regards to the UK, although companies have release BPA free plastic products, we still seem to be a bit indifferent on the subject and follow it with stories like this one from the Daily Mail.
I certainly think that our exposure to chemicals like BPA and the many others that we don’t even know about that are used by manufactures may well be adding to the recent huge rise in various allergies and the massive increase in such aliments as Diabetes.
So next time you want a drink, check what’s in the bottle, it could be another dose of BPA.
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