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Monday, January 28, 2013
Greens Complain About BPA-Free Products They Helped Spur
Anti-chemical environmental activists rarely consider the consequences of their policies. They demonize chemicals that have been used safely for decades and advance chemical bans based on weak science without considering whether the replacement products will be any safer. This is why it is particularly ironic that they are now complaining
about the replacement chemical for bisphenol A (BPA), which greens have
pressed government to ban. BPA is used to make hard, clear plastics
and resins that line food cans among other things. Suddenly, greens are
up in arms because new clear plastics are made with an alternative
product to BPA called bisphenol S (BPS). “[S]wapping out BPA for BPS may
have meant ‘jumping from the frying pan to the fire,’” reads an article
on CommonDreams.org. But the greens only have themselves to blame. Last year, some activists pointed out that BPS may be a more potent “endocrine disrupter” and that the human body does not metabolize BPS as easily as it does for BPA. Now a research paper on the topic has appeared in Environmental Health Perspectives...more
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