Is there a concern for occurrence of Bisphenol A (BPA) in food products?
Animal toxicity studies show that exposure to high levels of BPA can cause hormonal changes. Because interference with the levels or activity of hormones has been associated with health effects such as cancer and developmental defects, some people have said that BPA is not safe. However, recognised experts and regulatory authorities are of the opinion that the very low level of BPA that consumers are exposed to means that these effects will not occur with human exposure. Some studies claim to show that BPA causes hormonal changes at very low levels (a so-called ‘low-dose effect’). There is a lot of controversy surrounding this low-dose effect because when these studies were repeated in different laboratories, the same changes were not seen. This is important because it is a principal of scientific research that findings should be reproducible to ensure they have not arisen by chance. Recognised experts and regulatory authorities do not therefore take these studies into account when set
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