Author: Zaroc StoneZaroc Stone Date: Sep 16, 2008 08:07
What the Chemical Industry Doesn't Want You to Know about Everyday
Products
By Elaine Shannon, AlterNet. Posted September 15, 2008.
The chemical industry has spent years trying to suppress information
about a certain chemical. Will Congress help the public know the true
dangers?
It takes a lot of nerve to go up against the $3 trillion-a-year global
chemical industry.
Ask University of Missouri-Columbia scientists Frederick Vom Saal and
Wade Welshons. They've been in the industry's crosshairs for more than
a decade, since their experiments turned up the first hard evidence
that miniscule amounts of bisphenol A (BPA), an artificial sex hormone
and integral component of a vast array of plastic products, caused
irreversible changes in the prostates of fetal mice.
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