Turns out the human body doesn't retain BPA and it excretes it as waste almost immediately. Unfortunately the press and (for some reason) the government don't want to tout what is being called one of the most scientifically pure and accurate studies done in recent memory. Hell, it was even funded in part and assisted by the EPA, CDC and US Food & Drug Admin. themselves!
You can read about the study in the below linked article which is in easy to read English and not medical study jargon but to boil it down, scientists fed a group of human volunteers an extremely high level of BPA carrying food items while testing their blood and urine. Turns out, the BPA all came out in the urine and remained at undetectable levels in the blood. This is simplifying the study but you get the idea. The study was double checked and passed around the scientific community to see if they could blow holes in its findings or methodology and they couldn't with some calling it a "Majestically Scientific" study.
So now that the Feds paid for in part and helped run the study that debunks the "scare" that was drummed up by a bunch of Enviro-wackos (I believe deriving from the UK) and put a number of companies out of business and filled our dumps with cast off baby and Nalgene bottles you'd think they might want to correct public perception. Nope. In fact I bet this is the first your hearing about this and no one you know has heard of this either. I'll go further. I'll bet you continue to believe BPA is harmful and won't voice an opinion otherwise publicly for fear of people looking at you strange for saying such a thing because everyone KNOWS BPA is harmful and causes baby boys to grow breasts and such. Just a reminder of how we all get brainwashed so quickly and won't move back toward the truth even when its staring us in the face.
Federal Study on BPA...
WSJ Editorial on new BPA study...
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