Is BPA the new MMR?
Trevor Butterworth at Stats.org has been covering the BPA uproar for quite a while. His April 10th post:
War has broken out on the pages of the world’s top scientific journal in toxicology – Toxicological Sciences – and for those watching it unfold, the intense combat, drawing in world leaders in their fields, has produced a clear and remarkable outcome: The panic over the chemical bisphenol A (BPA) is not only unjustified, it has reached a point where the failure to accept basic, rational principles in scientific research is damaging toxicology itself, wasting taxpayers money and undermining scientific progress.
I’m always interested in articles about BPA, because it was right when I was first buying baby gear that the whole story broke. I remember going to Babies R Us about six times to try to find the Dr. Brown’s BPA free baby bottles, but they were always sold out. People were panicked about BPA, and the non BPA bottles would fly off the shelves. I couldn’t even buy them online. When you’re expecting your first baby, you just want to get all the stuff in the house before the big day, and these BPA free bottles were a huge pain in the butt.
Two years of motherhood have calmed me down. I will now microwave broccoli in just about any plastic container. And according to this article, that’s probably okay.
Trevor Butterworth writes quite a bit about BPA. His lengthy (seriously lengthy, but organized so you can jump around) article entitled “Science Suppressed: How America Became Obsessed with BPA” can be found here.

