(NaturalNews) The American Chemistry Council (ACC) has never met a chemical it didn't like. The organization is a chemical advocacy group whose members include all the largest chemical producers such as Monsanto, Bayer, Merck, Chevron, DuPont and many more. It's like a Who's Who of companies whose products pollute the world, in my opinion.
Much like Big Tobacco did with nicotine -- "It's not addictive, we swear!" -- the ACC says bisphenol A (BPA) is perfectly safe for you. Drink all you want!
As the ACC's Lisa Harrison told CBS News, "What's important to remember is the FDA indicated that the BPA has not been proven harmful to children or adults."
This is the default position of all the chemical companies who poison our bodies and our planet:
All synthetic chemicals are "safe" until you prove them dangerous.It's a hazardous assumption to make, of course. The more reasonable assumption would be that
all synthetic chemicals are dangerous until proven safe, but that position wouldn't allow these companies to sell very many chemicals, would it?
The FDA's conspiracy to promote dangerous chemicals
The FDA, for its part, has been engaged in
a conspiracy of silence to avoid admitting that BPA is dangerous for human health. This conspiracy was recently shattered when the FDA's own science advisors blasted the agency for ignoring over 100 published studies showing BPA was dangerous. The FDA, you see, had discarded those 100+ studies and, instead, based its conclusions on just
two studies that happened to be funded by the chemical industry.
That's how the
FDA operates across the board: Ignore all the science you don't like, and cherry-pick the science you want to believe, even if it's all been funded by the chemical companies. By relying on that gimmick, the FDA was able to maintain its intellectually dishonest position that
BPA posed no risk to human health.
There's also evidence of corruption and fraud in the FDA's position on BPA. Did you know, for example, that the chairman of the FDA panel making a key decision on BPA "safety" -- Martin Philbert -- also sits at the top of a company that received a secret $5 million payment (
http://www.naturalnews.com/026400_Bisphenol-A_BPA_food.html).
But the scientific evidence against BPA is now so large than even the FDA can't continue to stonewall the public on this issue.
BPA is dangerous to human health, and it should be banned from all items that come into contact with foods (which includes soup can linings, food packaging, water bottles and much more...).
As Kelly Wallace from CBC News discovered, just eating one tuna sandwich caused BPA levels in her blood to soar to over
five times the average BPA level found in the blood of American consumers (and that "average" level is dangerous to begin with). (
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/01/18/earlyshow/health/main611071...)
Sources for this story include:
Washington Post:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/15/AR201...CBS News:
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/01/18/earlyshow/health/main611071...LA Times:
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/greenspace/2010/01/bpa-bisphenol-baby...NaturalNews:
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