The Food and Drug Administration finally came out with their long-awaited update on the use of Bisphenol A in food contact applications and they say…….wait a little longer. The key paragraph of the release can use some parsing: Studies employing standardized toxicity tests have thus far supported the safety of current low levels of human exposure to BPA However, on the basis of results from recent studies using novel approaches to test for subtle effects, both the National Toxicology Program at the National Institutes of Health and FDA have some concern about the potential effects of BPA on the brain, behavior, and prostate gland in fetuses, infants, and young children. (emphasis mine) By “novel approaches”, they mean studying it at low levels, treating it like a hormone, which can have an effect at very low dosage. This should hardly be considered “novel” when they have known BPA is…
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