{"id":330225,"date":"2010-02-17T00:27:30","date_gmt":"2010-02-17T05:27:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.disinfo.com\/?p=22433"},"modified":"2010-02-17T00:27:30","modified_gmt":"2010-02-17T05:27:30","slug":"fda-says-it%e2%80%99s-unable-to-regulate-bpa-considered-hazardous-since-the-1930s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/330225","title":{"rendered":"FDA Says It\u2019s Unable to Regulate BPA, Considered Hazardous Since the 1930s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-left: 20px;margin-bottom: 10px\" src=\"http:\/\/disinfo.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/BabyBottle.jpg\" alt=\"Baby Bottle\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-22435\" height=\"302\" width=\"193\" \/>Meg Kissinger reports in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jsonline.com\/watchdog\/watchdogreports\/81901927.html\">Journal Sentinel<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>U.S. Food and Drug Administration officials say they are powerless to regulate BPA, although they have declared the chemical to be a safety concern for fetuses, babies and young children.<\/p>\n<p>A quirk in the rules allows BPA makers to skirt federal regulation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We may have to go after legislation to change it,&#8221; Joshua Sharfstein, the FDA&#8217;s principal deputy director, told the Journal Sentinel. The newspaper has been investigating the government&#8217;s lack of regulation regarding BPA for three years.<\/p>\n<p>FDA officials announced Friday that they had reversed their position that bisphenol A is safe. The chemical, used to line most food and beverage cans, has been found in the urine of 93% of Americans tested.<\/p>\n<p>The agency now considers BPA to be of some concern for effects on the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meg Kissinger reports in the Journal Sentinel: U.S. Food and Drug Administration officials say they are powerless to regulate BPA, although they have declared the chemical to be a safety concern for fetuses, babies and young children. A quirk in the rules allows BPA makers to skirt federal regulation. &#8220;We may have to go after [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2604,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-330225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2604"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=330225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330225\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}