Life goes on with or without BPA-free products

Lately the BPA-free just became a heated topic everywhere, even in our small forum, is it hype or emerging science?

For me, I even struggle to understand how air works, so I certainly can’t easily grasp any medical effects from the leaching of BPA in our plastic products. However I could like everybody else to dig into google like nobodies business.

It’s all about the study results. More than 100 studies published in peer-reviewed journals have linked BPA, even in very low doses, to cancers, immune deficiencies, obesity, diabetes, and developmental issues. A Japanese study found that babies who put products containing BPA into their mouths can leach significant levels of the chemical from the plastic.

BPA appears in a myriad of plastic products, so the large scale solution has to come from industry standards. But I think that you can make an intelligent choice in the products you use. An easy win would be using BPA free drinking bottles and baby products.

Babies are a particular focus of BPA exposure. Baby bottles are predominately polycarbonate and leach BPA in significant doses into babies, who are highly susceptible to the effects of BPA.

More than 100 studies published in peer-reviewed journals show the detrimental effects of BPA, while government and plastics industry research does not. This is the pattern of almost everything that we gradually learn is harmful, so you may as well get on board now. It’s very easy to use safe products today, primarily baby related and drink containers. In shopping wisely you are encouraging companies to create BPA free products(Playtex already announced that all their product s will be BPA-free by the end of 2008, and Avent also announced that the company will launch new BPA-free bottles later this year), and all indications are that would be a good thing.

So the choice is yours....