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...which concluded in August that current levels of BPA exposure posed no real health risk. The Science Board convened Friday to discuss the panel's findings - a highly critical 17-page review that deemed the FDA's conclusions flawed - and to hear comments from the public about whether the compound should be banned from food and beverage containers. The board will now forward the review along with the FDA's original safety assessment to FDA chief Dr. Andrew von Eschenbach. The FDA has until February 2009, when the Science Board next meets, to respond...
...renewed uproar over plastic? Since the FDA completed its original analysis in August, additional data on the potential health effects of BPA have emerged, linking high levels of BPA exposure to increased risk of heart disease and diabetes and even a decreased sensitivity to chemotherapy in cancer patients. The compound is also linked to developmental and brain effects in infants; BPA is known to mimic the hormone estrogen in the body, which can cause changes in developing fetuses and infants. "There is enough evidence today for the FDA to take the precaution and to certainly get BPA out of infant...
...have that yet." The FDA report maintains, for example, that a BPA exposure level of 5 mg/kg per day is acceptable. Health officials have determined that baby bottles can produce anywhere from 7 micrograms/g to 57.7 micrograms/g of BPA. The questions are: How much of the compound is absorbed into an infant's body? How much remains, and how much is excreted? And does that exposure come close to the FDA threshold...
...Somalia Disturbing the Peace More than 20 people were killed Oct. 29 by a series of suicide bombings whose targets included a U.N. compound and the Ethiopian consulate, in the relatively stable northern Somali regions of Somaliland and Puntland. Government officials blamed the bombings on radical Islamic insurgents, who have vowed to continue fighting despite a U.N.-backed cease-fire agreed to earlier in the week by the Somali transitional government and the rival Islamic movement. The attacks coincided with a summit held in Nairobi by Somali and other African leaders to discuss the options for ending the chaos that...
...elected to fight." She cryptically ended with the hope that Stevens "will do what is right for the people of Alaska." Palin is still the most popular politician in Alaska - a throaty defense of Stevens could help him carry the day, while a call for his resignation could compound his worries. Her statement did neither, leaving Stevens - and the Senate race - still up for grabs...