Following is a transcript of the video. Narrator: There's been a lot of buzz about dubious chemicals in the environment that might contribute to some pretty frightening stuff like obesity, breast ...

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Retailers and consumer groups started demanding non-BPA-containing plastics. Pediatricians were particularly concerned about limiting BPA exposure in pregnant women, infants, and young children. 4,8 ...

Your “BPA-free” plastic product may be no safer than the product it replaced, says a new UCLA study that analyzed the impact of a common BPA alternative on zebra fish embryos. The study joins a small ...

Maybe you heard it last week: the sound of hard-plastic containers being hurled into recycling bins all over town. After Canadian and U.S. reports found that the chemical bisphenol A (BPA), used to ...

BPA stands for bisphenol A, an industrial chemical commonly found in hard plastics and epoxy resins. A host of studies have shown that BPA can harm the reproductive and general well-being of some ...

A new study shows that some widely used BPA replacements can kill cells and disrupt key functions, prompting scientists to call for closer scrutiny. New research from McGill University reveals that ...

As part of a laboratory experiment, Rebecca Holmes examined water bottles that had been acquired from abroad expecting to find bisphenol A (BPA), a human-made component commonly found in polycarbonate ...