Comments on: French Food Safety Authority Offers Lifeline To Bisphenol A Producers http://the-health-gazette.com/1069/french-food-safety-authority-offers-lifeline-to-bisphenol-a-producers/ Your interactive source for health news, views and reviews Thu, 29 Mar 2012 17:48:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Editor http://the-health-gazette.com/1069/french-food-safety-authority-offers-lifeline-to-bisphenol-a-producers/comment-page-1/#comment-193 Editor Sat, 20 Feb 2010 02:34:18 +0000 http://the-health-gazette.com/?p=1069#comment-193 California is virtually going the opposite way. Instead of rejecting all of the scientific studies and claiming more studies are needed before acting BPA could be listed as a toxin by the Californian Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA). The OEHHA is considering the listing following a request from the Natural Resources Defense Council. In a letter to the OEHHA, the organization’s senior scientist Gina Solomon said: “We write on behalf of the Natural Resources Defense Council – an environmental and public health organization which as 1.2m members…250,000 of whom are Californians – to ask OEHHA to move forward immediately to list bisphenol A under Proposition 65 as a chemical that is known to the state to cause reproductive toxicity.” Its petition was based on a 2008 National Toxicology Program report which concluded that there is widespread exposure to BPA and that this may affect human development or reproduction. Under state law, so-called Proposition 65 requires the governor to publish a list of chemicals known to cause cancer or reproductive toxicity. California is virtually going the opposite way. Instead of rejecting all of the scientific studies and claiming more studies are needed before acting BPA could be listed as a toxin by the Californian Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA).

The OEHHA is considering the listing following a request from the Natural Resources Defense Council. In a letter to the OEHHA, the organization’s senior scientist Gina Solomon said: “We write on behalf of the Natural Resources Defense Council – an environmental and public health organization which as 1.2m members…250,000 of whom are Californians – to ask OEHHA to move forward immediately to list bisphenol A under Proposition 65 as a chemical that is known to the state to cause reproductive toxicity.”

Its petition was based on a 2008 National Toxicology Program report which concluded that there is widespread exposure to BPA and that this may affect human development or reproduction.

Under state law, so-called Proposition 65 requires the governor to publish a list of chemicals known to cause cancer or reproductive toxicity.

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