An Aerial View of BPA: Where Are We Since the Rejected Ban?

krossbow/CC BY 2.0BPA is the chemical that just won’t melt back into the background--too many people have chosen sides on the issue. It’s a controversial industrial chemical that has been used since the 1960‘s and is found in epoxy resins that act as a protective lining in metal-based cans. It’s also used to make hard plastic known as polycarbonate.The FDA is unwilling to go for what Marian Nestle calls the

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