clipped from: www.californiaprogressreport.com   
BPA can be found in plastic baby bottles, children’s “sippy” cups, large water bottles like those delivered to offices, and in the epoxy resin coating in the interior of modern metal food and aluminum soda cans, among other products

In 2005, 2 million metric tons of Bisphenol A was sold globally, with sales last year exceeding $6 billion dollars

The chemical has been shown in studies to act as an endocrine disruptor similar to phthalates, affecting the hormonal system as well as the metabolism of humans

more than 130 studies now link BPA exposure at very low doses to early onset of prostate and breast cancer, obesity, brain damage, lowered sperm counts and early puberty in adolescents.

prolonged exposure to low levels of BPA may induce chronic toxicity in humans.

you’re basically giving everyone a tiny birth control pill everyday

80 percent of babies are born with phthalates in their urine now, it’s getting pretty scary.”

the FDA

relied on just two studies

funded by the chemical industry