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F.D.A. Concerned About Substance in Food Packaging
DENISE GRADY
NY
Times
Saturday, January 16th, 2010
In a shift of position, the Food and Drug Administration is
expressing concerns about possible health risks from bisphenol-A,
or BPA, a widely used component of plastic bottles and food
packaging that it declared safe in 2008.
The agency said Friday that it had “some concern about
the potential effects of BPA on the brain, behavior and prostate
gland of fetuses, infants and children,” and would join
other federal health agencies in studying the chemical in both
animals and humans.
The action is another example of the drug agency under the
Obama administration becoming far more aggressive in taking
hard looks at what it sees as threats to public health. In recent
months, the agency has stepped up its oversight of food safety
and has promised to tighten approval standards for medical devices.
Concerns about BPA are based on studies that have found harmful
effects in animals, and on the recognition that the chemical
seeps into food and baby formula, and that nearly everyone is
exposed to it, starting in the womb.
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