What effects can BPA and phthalates have on children?
The best way to describe the type of effects that Bisphenol-A and phthalates have is to first consider they belong to a large group of chemicals that are known as endocrine disruptors. Endocrine disruptors are chemicals that seem to be able to mimic the effect of our bodies’ own hormones. There is a potential for taking in a substance, taking in a chemical that starts to change how your body is functioning. Both Bisphenol-A (which we’ll call BPA) and phthalates belong to this long class called endocrine disruptors. In terms of the types of effects that these chemicals could produce as endocrine disruptors the first thing I would emphasize is we have no evidence that they have produced those effects in babies or in humans, for that matter. The concern has relied primarily on experimental data and experimental models but it does seem that in these experimental models that the BPA that’s in polycarbonate bottles seems to act like a synthetic estrogen and the phthalates found in plastic se
