What is BPA?

Answer 1

BPA is a synthetic estrogen used to harden polycarbonate plastics and epoxy resin. This chemical is believed to cause serious damages to your health, even in small dosages. Damages include aggregating disorders and disrupting the endocrine system.

EWG has completed a study on BPA, demonstrating that BPA leaches from many of canned food's lining into the food, causing consumers to ingest the chemical while eating the can's contents. This finding helped explain the findings of U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that 93% of Americans had detectable amounts of BPA within their urine.

To read more, visit .ewg.org/chemindex/chemicals/bisphenolA

Answer 2

Bisphenol-A (BPA) is a synthetic estrogen used to harden polycarbonate plastics and epoxy resin. It is used in thousands of products made of hard, clear polycarbonate plastics and tough epoxy resins, including safety equipment, eyeglasses, computer and cell phone casings, water and beverage bottles and epoxy paint and coatings. But BPA-based plastics break down readily, particularly when heated or washed with strong detergent.


People are concerned about it because in laboratory tests, trace BPA exposure has been shown to disrupt the endocrine system and trigger a wide variety of disorders, including chromosomal and reproductive system abnormalities, impaired brain and neurological functions, cancer, cardiovascular system damage, adult-onset Diabetes, early puberty, obesity and resistance to chemotherapy.


And it's in everyone, even newborn babies: Environmental Working Group's latest research found, for the first time, BPA in umbilical cord blood. Read the report, see the FAQ's and get tips on avoiding BPA exposure here: http://www.ewg.org/minoritycordblood