BPA of "some concern" and New Study Finds BPA Effects Primates' Brains-

The long awaited results of the National Toxicology Program's report on BPA was released, and they have labeled the chemical one of "some concern", according to this video from the Today show. The concerns focus around the effects of BPA on the brain, prostates in children and behavior, but apparently not the reproductive systems in girls.

To understand what "some concern" actually means, visit this link from the National Institutes of Health. It is actually in the mid level range of their concern scale.

This graphic helps to demonstrate this is no dismissal of concerns about the chemical:




Interestingly, the National Institutes of Health is calling for more research, and the FDA is evaluating the National Toxicology Program's result and will be calling for public input in late September. This of course is after the FDA issued a statement calling BPA safe.

Here's an article from CBCnews about the report and other findings that question the safety of BPA.

I'll post information about how to share your thoughts on BPA in children's products when the FDA is open for comments about this issue.

A late addition to this post was a recent article in the Washington Post, outlining a recent study finding problems in the brains of monkeys who were exposed to BPA:

""Our findings suggest that exposure to low-dose BPA may have widespread effects on brain structure and function," the authors wrote. In contrast to earlier research on rodents, the Yale researchers studied monkeys to better approximate the way BPA might affect humans.

"Our goal was to more closely mimic the slow and continuous conditions under which humans would normally be exposed to BPA," said study author Csaba Leranth, a Yale professor of obstetrics, gynecology and reproductive sciences and of neurobiology."

This is the first time BPA has been tested in primates (and how long have humans had this exposure? I'm not for cruel animal testing, but don't you think more research should've been done before putting this chemical in baby's bottles?).