Canadian officials deny science, declare BPA chemical 'safe' after first claiming it to be 'toxic'

Canadian officials deny science, declare BPA chemical 'safe' after first claiming it to be 'toxic'


(NaturalNews) Keeping up with the latest science regarding chemical
safety is apparently of little or no concern to the Canadian government,
which recently declared the highly-toxic plastics chemical bisphenol-A
(BPA) to be safe just two years after declaring it to be a toxin. In a
report issued by Health Canada's Food Directorate, the agency has
iterated its unfounded position that exposure to BPA in food packaging
"is not expected to pose a health risk to the general population,
including newborns and young children."

The announcement is
curious as Canada was one of the first countries to question the safety
of BPA back in 2008, right around the time that emerging science began
to show that the chemical leeches out of containers and into food and
drinks. A Canadian government panel at that time had determined that BPA
is potentially linked to hyperactivity in children, breast and prostate
cancers in adults, and birth defects in newborn babies, among other
conditions, which led many product manufacturers to voluntarily phase
out the use of BPA.

"Our science indicated that bisphenol-A may
be harmful to both human health and the environment and we were the
first country to take bold action in the interest of Canadians," said
Canadian Health Minister Leona Aglukkaq in a statement back in 2010.

But
in typical wishy-washy fashion, these same corporate-backed bureaucrats
are now back-peddling by trying to claim that BPA is just fine, even
for infants and babies. In complete denial of copious amounts of
evidence showing that even low levels of exposure to BPA
can cause organ damage, developmental disorders, reproductive damage
and infertility, digestive dysfunction, DNA damage, endocrine disruption
and many other conditions, Health Canada is attempting to pull the wool
over the eyes of the public by blatantly kowtowing to the chemical industry.

Th U.S. Food and Drug Administration
(FDA) has also flip-flopped several times on the BPA issue, having
recently banned BPA from children's drinking cups after vehemently
denying a few years earlier that BPA was at all dangerous (http://www.nytimes.com).
The positions on BPA held by both the Canadian and U.S. governments are
dubious at best, and have led to much public confusion about the
chemical.

But the science is clear -- or at least clear enough
for those that have eyes to see and ears to hear the truth. The simple
fact that BPA can bio-accumulate in the body over time is reason enough
to be leery of perpetual exposure to this known hormone disruptor, not
to mention the many other health conditions linked to BPA exposure. (http://www.environmentalhealthnews.org)


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