http://www.momsrising.org/blog/could-bpa-and-breast-milk-be-the-mercury-fish-catch22-for-the-next-generation/ Where Moms and the people who love them fight for a better America Thu, 09 Feb 2012 20:42:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.momsrising.org/blog/could-bpa-and-breast-milk-be-the-mercury-fish-catch22-for-the-next-generation/comment-page-1/#comment-28070 Ryann Soutar Sat, 23 Jan 2010 22:09:59 +0000 http://www.momsrising.org/blog/?p=3777#comment-28070 I had to write a paper on this for one of my nutrition courses not long ago. There is a very simple solution- urge elected officials and hound the FDA to ban the use of BPA as has been done in other countries (Canada comes to mind as well as most of Europe). It is perfectly possible to make plastic products without BPA. In fact it is even getting easier to simply avoid BPA products thanks to companies like Glad who are coming out with whole lines of products without it in response to consumer demand. I had to write a paper on this for one of my nutrition courses not long ago. There is a very simple solution- urge elected officials and hound the FDA to ban the use of BPA as has been done in other countries (Canada comes to mind as well as most of Europe). It is perfectly possible to make plastic products without BPA. In fact it is even getting easier to simply avoid BPA products thanks to companies like Glad who are coming out with whole lines of products without it in response to consumer demand.

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