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...saying the FDA's analysis excluded several important studies on BPA in animals. The panel also questioned the quality of some of the included studies and found that the FDA did not incorporate enough infant-formula samples in its evaluation. According to the panel review, the FDA's safety report "creates a false sense of security" and the agency's margins of safety for BPA exposure are, in fact, "inadequate." Says Tracey Woodruff, director of the program on reproductive health and the environment at the University of California, San Francisco, and a former Environmental Protection Agency scientist: "Unless the evidence...
...Eschenbach to decide how to proceed. He may start from scratch and commission another report that includes the most recent findings on BPA; he may reject the panel's review and adhere to the FDA's original conclusion that BPA is harmless at current exposure levels; or he may ban the chemical from baby products, as the Canadian government did in April. Or he may draw no further conclusions about BPA until additional studies can be commissioned and completed to answer some unresolved questions...
...there are intermediate steps between that and how much gets into an infant that we still need to model and establish mathematically," says John Bucher, associate director of the National Toxicology Program, which collaborates with the FDA, NIH and CDC. "And we don't 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...
...Things would cause a splash, The Crimson would report on it, and we’d all give ourselves a pat on the back and say, ‘We managed to screw with some liberals today,’” Kwong says. “But at the end of the day this wasn’t winning any support on campus. We were turning off people...
...SCOUTING REPORT...