Activists Push FDA to Remove Bisphenol-A From Baby Bottles.

Chemical Market Reporter, May, 1999 by HESS, GLENN

CONSUMER ADVOCATES are calling on government and industry to make all plastic food containers, including baby bottles, safer for children in light of new research showing higher levels of bisphenol-A (BPA) leaching from polycarbonate bottles. However, George Pauli, director of product policy at the Food and Drug Administration, says the agency has looked into BPA leaching and stands by its decades-old approval of polycarbonate baby bottles as safe.

The plastics industry also maintains that the weight of scientific evidence overwhelmingly supports the safety of polycarbonate containers and baby bottles. Recent testing "did not detect migration of BPA under normal conditions of use," according to the American Plastics Council and the Society of the...

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