Plastic panic: re-evaluating BPA.

• Author: Brown, Elizabeth Nolan
• Position: Citings - Brief article

For the better part of the past decade, activists have been warning about the dangers of bisphenol A (BPA), a chemical compound common in plastic products. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration banned its use in baby bottles and infant-formula packaging in 2012, but for many this wasn't enough. France banned BPA from all food packaging, and as recently as June 2014 U.S. lawmakers were pushing a similar ban.

But everyday exposure to BPA may not be as dangerous as previously suspected. In January 2015, the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) released the results of a comprehensive reevaluation of the stuff, concluding that it "poses no health risk to consumers of any age group (including unborn children, infants and adolescents) at current exposure levels."

This isn't to say that BPA is safe at all...