Environmental Sustainability and BPA

There is sufficient credible evidence that BPA leaches out of PC products and epoxy liners into food/beverages in contact with plastic. The critical question is whether potential adverse health impacts are encountered at the low levels of BPA in real exposure environments (as opposed to those in laboratory studies). There may not be enough research information to unequivocally answer the question. 

However, environmental sustainabihty considerations address a slightly different question Is there enough robust data on negative health impacts to warrant precautionary action to phase out the use of BPA The intensity of the controversy in the science community alone answers this question in the affirmative. Precautionary avoidance of the use of BPA, at the very least in food-contact uses, pending resolution of the issue scientifically is justified. This is particularly reasonable as comparable or superior alternative materials for these applications do exist. 

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