On January 14, 2010, Ken Cook, president of the Environmental Working Group, sent the following letter to the FDA commisioner:
Dear Madam Commissioner,
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has yet to issue its final decision on whether bisphenol A (BPA), an industrial chemical and synthetic estrogen, should be used in food packaging. As even the chemical [...]
Filed under: BPA on January 24th, 2010 | 1 Comment »
As you can probably tell, I’ve been reading a lot lately. I just finally have the time to tackle some subjects I’ve always wanted to read more about. One of those topics I’m very passionate about is toxic chemicals in our environment and how to best avoid them. If that is interesting to you too, [...]
Filed under: BPA, Book recommendation, Chemicals, Environment, PBDEs, Perflourinated chemicals, Phthalates on December 26th, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Protecting my children from the chemicals and toxins in their environment is the passion that caused me to launch this blog 2.5 years ago. After researching BPA and phthalates and working hard to eliminate them from our home, I decided to start this blog to share what I had learned. Now that it is almost [...]
Filed under: BPA, Book recommendation, Chemicals, Children, Lead, PBDEs, Phthalates on December 21st, 2009 | No Comments »
Several studies (see video) have found that toxic substances, many of which have been banned for decades, can be found in our bodies. Most saddening to me is that many of these subtances have been found in the blood of umbilical cords of pregnant women, meaning that children are exposed to harmful chemicals before they’re [...]
Filed under: BPA, Chemicals, Children on December 5th, 2009 | 1 Comment »
A friend of my mother wrote Muir Glen lately asking “why aren’t your tomatoes in jars since cans have BPA, which is detrimental to our health, in the lining?”
This was their response:
Dear Valued Consumer,
Thank you for contacting Muir Glen regarding bisphenol-A in food packaging. Bisphenol-A is a critical component of protective coatings used with [...]
Filed under: BPA, Chemicals, Food and Nutrition on November 13th, 2009 | 1 Comment »
In April 2006, I was on the market for a sippy cup or water bottle not made from plastic. I was hoping to avoid some of the chemicals often used in plastics (i.e. BPA, phthalates). I opted for a SIGG water bottle and bought three for my son. Since then, I’ve acquired two more and [...]
Filed under: BPA, Children, Plastic on August 22nd, 2009 | 1 Comment »
It’s best to avoid cans when possible, but I know as well as any how hard that is. A lot of our winter recipes (stew, chili, etc.) require canned tomatoes. I haven’t found a way around it, except to jar my own tomatoes each summer, and I just haven’t been able to do that. For [...]
Filed under: BPA, Chemicals, Food and Nutrition on September 26th, 2008 | No Comments »
The saga of BPA continues…
For those of you not up to speed on BPA, here’s a quick recap. In the U.S., 7 billion pounds of BPA are produced annually. Since 2004, we have known that detectable levels of BPA are found in the blood of 93% of Americans over age 6. In April of this [...]
Filed under: BPA, Chemicals, Children, Plastic on September 8th, 2008 | 1 Comment »
California was the first state considering a ban on the chemical Bisphenol-A from baby bottles and sippy cups but the bill was rejected this week. For more on this, see a well writen article on enviroblog.com.
Filed under: BPA, Chemicals, Children, Plastic on September 3rd, 2008 | No Comments »
In April, the NIH’s National Toxicology Program concluded that there was “some concern” about the effects of BPA on children, babies, and fetuses. I summarized that info here. That report spurned the FDA to re-examine the safety of BPA.
Just this week, the FDA declared that BPA is safe. However, there are some concerns that the [...]
Filed under: BPA, Chemicals, Children, Plastic on August 19th, 2008 | 2 Comments »