Tests find chemical after normal heating of ‘microwave safe’ plastics
By Susanne Rust And Meg Kissinger
Nov. 15, 2008
http://www.jsonline.com/watchdog/watchdogreports/34532034.html
Products marketed for infants or billed as “microwave safe” release toxic doses of the chemical bisphenol A when heated, an analysis by the Journal Sentinel has found.
The newspaper had the containers of 10 items tested in a lab – products that were heated in a microwave or conventional oven. Bisphenol A, or BPA, was found to be leaching from all of them.
The amounts detected were at levels that scientists have found cause neurological and developmental damage in laboratory animals. The problems include genital defects, behavioral changes and abnormal development of mammary glands. The changes to the mammary glands were identical to those observed in women at higher risk for breast cancer…
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http://www.jsonline.com/watchdog/watchdogreports/34532034.html
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Putting the products to the test.
To test ’safe’ products for bisphenol A, Journal Sentinel reporters sent items to Vom Saal’s laboratory for testing, one of the few laboratories that has repeatedly looked for BPA levels leaching from food containers.
- Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Wisconsin
