07.mar.07
Environmental Working Group
http://www.ewg.org/reports/bisphenola/newsrelease.php
WASHINGTON -- An independent laboratory found a compound (Bisphenol A or BPA) linked to birth defects in more than half of the samples of canned fruit, vegetables, soda, and baby formula from supermarket shelves, according to an Environmental Working Group (EWG) report released on 5 March 2007. The lab tests conducted for EWG found the compound in 55 of 97 retail samples of canned food. The potential for BPA to cause birth defects and reproductive harm is being evaluated today by a federal advisory panel at the Center for Evaluation of Risks to Human Reproduction (CERHR), a division of the National Institutes of Health. BPA is an component in plastics and the epoxy resins that line food cans. Low doses of BPA lead to a number of health problems, including birth defects of the male and female reproductive systems in laboratory animals.