BPA Safe After All? Too Late Now, Thanks to FDA’s Slow Testing
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April 03, 2012
Food, Law & Regulatory
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Tags: BPA, cans, chemicals, consumers, FDA, food and drug administration, food safety, linings, media, pink slime, plastics, processing, production, public, reports
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced last week that it will not ban BPA, the on-again off-again controversial chemical used in a variety of food packaging applications. This announcement from FDA is the most recent in a long string of protests, promises, and petitions. This time, FDA issued a slightly anti-climactic, “it appears safe but we still don’t know.” When BPA issues were first raised by consumers, FDA initially claimed that they could not regulate it and essentially absolved themselves from ongoing participation in the … READ MORE
