BPA is a very common chemical found in most canned foods and all plastic containers not specifically marked "BPA Free," making it stocked in abundance at every grocery store and most common household pantries. Your Tupperware, canned goods, your bottled water, and even that cute water bottle you bought when you decided to go green.
The European Union and Canada have banned the use of BPA in baby bottles because it is commonly known at this point to affect human development and behavior in adverse ways. America's number one corrupt organization of goons working for the giant chemical companies interests, The FDA have not taken any action save for commenting that they have "some concern" regarding the effects of the industrial chemical that has been widely used in US packaging since the 60s.
However, The National Academy of Sciences conducted a study on the effects of BPA and amongst other things, found interestingly enough that mice fed a diet with levels of BPA that were proportional to the amount the US government considers safe to ingest had a noteworthy reaction.
Yahoo News published a short article on the findings here:
BPA makes male mice act like females
http://old.news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20110627/hl_afp/healthusanimalchemical_20110627190832
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It's ironic that BPA's interference with hormones has been shown to cause severe developmental issues in infants, yet the consumer product containing the highest amounts of BPAs is infant formula. Due to overexposure of these chemicals, each of us has a measurable percentage of BPA running through our veins.
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