The EPA has added BPA to its list of chemicals of concern and announced an action plan to investigate the chemical s effects on the environment.
It s bad enough that the FDA has waffled on BPA, now all of a sudden the EPA is involved, says ACSH s Dr. Elizabeth Whelan. When you know the science of BPA as we do, and you know there s nothing there, reading these things makes you feel extremely frustrated, even angry. Whether it s part of their mandate or not, the EPA have insinuated themselves into public health issues -- or non-issues, in this case.
The initial argument was that people are drinking out of containers that have BPA in them, so that s why the FDA was involved, says ACSH s Jeff Stier. When the EPA starts talking about BPA in the environment, they re saying that it poses a danger at even lower, indirect exposures, which is, of course, absolute nonsense.
