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Scientist Dukes It Out Over Sippy Cup Safety |
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Written by WOAI
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Tuesday, 16 October 2007 |
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 Bisphenol A, or BPA, is used to make plastic products, including baby sippy cups. The problem with that, according to Dr. Frederick Vom Saal, a biologist at the University of Missouri, warns that a chemical used to make a wide variety of plastic goods, including most baby bottle, may not be safe.
He authored a report on how the estrogen exposure from BPA can lead to "mammary cancer" and "other kinds of cancer."
Vom Saal said, "It comes into your baby's body and there isn't an immediate visible impact of that. It's like putting a time bomb into the organs of your baby that later on in life are going to cause those organs to malfunction and lead to mammary cancer, other kinds of cancers that are associated with estrogen exposure."
The FDA wrote in response, "We are actively reviewing the safety of BPA. These studies do not indicate a safety concern at the current exposure level for infants or adults. We will continue to monitor data on bpa to determine if a safety concern exists."
Visit Bisphenol-a.org/human/polyplastics.html for more information.
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