Despite FDA concern, American Chemistry Council insists Bisphenol A is safe for

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Despite FDA concern, American Chemistry Council insists Bisphenol A is

safe for everyone

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NaturalNews) The American Chemistry Council (ACC) has never met a chemical

it didn't like. The organization is a chemical advocacy group whose

members include all the largest chemical producers such as Monsanto, Bayer,

Merck, Chevron, DuPont and many more. It's like a Who's Who of companies whose

products pollute the world, in my opinion.

 

 

Much like Big Tobacco did with nicotine -- " It's not addictive, we swear! "

-- the ACC says bisphenol A (BPA) is perfectly safe for you. Drink all you

want!

 

 

As the ACC's Lisa Harrison told CBS News, " What's important to remember is

the FDA indicated that the BPA has not been proven harmful to children or

adults. "

 

 

This is the default position of all the chemical companies who poison our

bodies and our planet: All synthetic chemicals are " safe " until you prove

them dangerous.

 

 

It's a hazardous assumption to make, of course. The more reasonable

assumption would be that all synthetic chemicals are dangerous until proven

safe,

but that position wouldn't allow these companies to sell very many

chemicals, would it?

 

 

The FDA's conspiracy to promote dangerous chemicals

 

The FDA, for its part, has been engaged in a conspiracy of silence to

avoid admitting that BPA is dangerous for human health. This conspiracy was

recently shattered when the FDA's own science advisors blasted the agency for

ignoring over 100 published studies showing BPA was dangerous. The FDA, you

see, had discarded those 100+ studies and, instead, based its conclusions

on just two studies that happened to be funded by the chemical industry.

 

 

That's how the FDA operates across the board: Ignore all the science you

don't like, and cherry-pick the science you want to believe, even if it's

all been funded by the chemical companies. By relying on that gimmick, the

FDA was able to maintain its intellectually dishonest position that BPA posed

no risk to human health.

 

 

There's also evidence of corruption and fraud in the FDA's position on

BPA. Did you know, for example, that the chairman of the FDA panel making a

key decision on BPA " safety " -- Martin Philbert -- also sits at the top of a

company that received a secret $5 million payment

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But the scientific evidence against BPA is now so large than even the FDA

can't continue to stonewall the public on this issue. BPA is dangerous to

human health, and it should be banned from all items that come into contact

with foods (which includes soup can linings, food packaging, water bottles

and much more...).

 

 

As Kelly Wallace from CBC News discovered, just eating one tuna sandwich

caused BPA levels in her blood to soar to over five times the average BPA

level found in the blood of American consumers (and that " average " level is

dangerous to begin with). (

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Sources for this story include:

 

Washington Post:

_http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/15/AR201001150

4070.html?hpid=topnews_

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..html?hpid=topnews)

 

 

CBS News:

_http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/01/18/earlyshow/health/main6110716.shtm

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LA Times:

_http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/greenspace/2010/01/bpa-bisphenol-baby-bottl

es-fda-chemicals.html_

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da-chemicals.html)

 

 

NaturalNews:

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