{"id":304,"date":"2008-04-25T16:38:51","date_gmt":"2008-04-25T21:38:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thegatesofdawn.ca\/wordpress\/posts\/2008\/04\/25\/bisphenol-a-is-the-new-aluminum\/"},"modified":"2021-04-12T23:38:45","modified_gmt":"2021-04-13T04:38:45","slug":"bisphenol-a-is-the-new-aluminum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thegatesofdawn.ca\/wordpress\/posts\/2008\/04\/25\/bisphenol-a-is-the-new-aluminum\/","title":{"rendered":"Bisphenol A is the new aluminum"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sabrina received a couple email warnings from well-meaning friends today, about this decade’s great evil conspiracy: Bisphenol A in baby bottles.
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\nI first heard about this stuff a few years ago from my brother.\u00a0 Plastic bottles make girls grow boobs too early, or something like that.\u00a0 That right there is reason to be skeptical about it.\u00a0 I didn’t really think much about it.<\/p>\n

Some years later, I read a review of the available scientific evidence on the subject in a magazine.\u00a0 Sadly, I can’t find the article anymore.\u00a0 But the gist of it was that the whole fracas is just a whole lot of unwarranted scare-mongering, with much wailing and gnashing-of-teeth, but scarcely a shred of solid science behind it.<\/p>\n

Since I last looked at it, apparently Bisphenol A has ratcheted up its campaign of terror a few notches.\u00a0 It’s doing alot more than just growing boobies on pre-teens.\u00a0 Now it’s causing assorted cancers, infertility, thyroid problems, ADHD, obesity.\u00a0 You name it, Bisphenol A can cause it… as long as it’s bad.<\/p>\n

I was going to lump these latest emails in with the rest of that crap, but apparently there’s at least some truth in them: Health Canada really is<\/em> going to tighten the acceptable levels of Bisphenol A, and ban baby bottles made with it.<\/p>\n

The Health Canada website doesn’t really go into much detail about why exactly they’re doing this, after years of maintaining (along with every other respectable health organization in the world) that it’s perfectly safe (at the levels we encounter.)\u00a0 They don’t show any solid new evidence.\u00a0 They don’t even claim that the existing levels of Bisphenol A are actually dangerous at all.\u00a0 Just a vague statement about improving the safety margin.\u00a0 Personally, I think they’re just caving in to all the “think-of-the-children” hysteria around the issue.<\/p>\n

Two things really crack me up about all this:<\/p>\n