New updates on toxic plastic bottles that are widely used especially by school kids and baby plastic bottles. Could be a important factor to address our fertility problems and developmental issues. My generation, perhaps being affected by so many toxic products could not coherently keep abreast of the new toxins being introduced continuously into the environment. Perhaps the younger generation can do something about it proactively to prevent falling into the same predicament as our current generation.
As to the soya bean issue for having too must phytoestrogen, do note the role of the weed killer, atrazine used in its cultivation process. Atrazine affects human and other mammalian endocrine cells and why these cells are particularly sensitive to it. Bisphenol A, a compound in many hard plastic consumer products, is also an Endocrine disrupter like Atrazine.
So the food you eat and utensil you eat or drink from is full of endocrine disruptor and phytoestrogens. So in a toxic environment like indiscrimminate spraying of toxic chemicals too ( I have seen contract workers who can decide on their own to spray so much insecticides in my housing area including the hospital green patches that children or toddlers who frollick around or patients who just wander around could be expose to so much of these toxin intended for insect or weed). Our short-sightedness here is indeed doing alot of damages for generations to come.
Take Care
Mikey
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Toxic Plastics: Bisphenol A Linked To Metabolic Syndrome In Human Tissue
ScienceDaily (Sep. 5, 2008) — New research from the University of Cincinnati (UC) implicates the primary chemical used to produce hard plastics—bisphenol A (BPA)—as a risk factor for metabolic syndrome and its consequences. (link)
Chemical In Plastic Bottles Raises Some Concern, According To New Report
ScienceDaily (Apr. 22, 2008) — Concern about the potential health effects of bisphenol A (BPA), a chemical widely used in consumer plastic products, is growing, following the release this week of a draft report from the US National Toxicology Program (NTP). That report says there’s “some concern” about the potential negative health effects of BPA on infants and children and calls for more research to determine just what the risks of BPA exposure might be. On Friday (25 Apr 08) , the government of Canada said it would begin a 60-day public comment period on whether to ban baby bottles containing bisphenol A. And water bottle manufacturer Nalgene announced April 18 it would phase out use of BPA in its containers in response to public concern about the chemical.(link)
Why Synthetic Estrogens Wreak Havoc On Reproductive System
ScienceDaily (Apr. 2, 2008) — Researchers at Yale School of Medicine now have a clearer understanding of why synthetic estrogens such as those found in many widely-used plastics have a detrimental effect on a developing fetus, cause fertility problems, as well as vaginal and breast cancers. (link)
Chemical Present In Clear Plastics Can Impair Learning And Cause Disease
ScienceDaily (Apr. 13, 2005) — Low doses of the environmental contaminant bisphenol–A (BPA), widely used to make many plastics found in food storage containers, including feeding bottles for infants, can impair brain function, leading to learning disabilities and age–related neurodegenerative diseases, according to Yale researchers and colleagues. (link)
Common Herbicide Disrupts Human Hormone Activity In Cell Studies
ScienceDaily (May 8, 2008) — A common weedkiller in the U.S., already suspected of causing sexual abnormalities in frogs and fish, has now been found to alter hormonal signaling in human cells, scientists from the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) report. ….
Holly Ingraham, PhD, senior author on the study and a UCSF Professor of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology noted that “These atrazine- sensitive genes are central to normal reproduction and are found in steroid producing tissues. You have to wonder about the long-term effects of exposing the rapidly developing fetus to atrazine or other endocrine disruptors.”
Ingraham intends to determine precisely how atrazine affects human and other mammalian endocrine cells and why these cells are particularly sensitive to it. She notes that bisphenol A, a compound in many hard plastic consumer products, is also an endocrine disrupter and is now under increased study for its safety. In April, Canada announced a decision to ban sale of consumer products with bisphenol A. (link)
Popular Weed Killer Demasculinizes Frogs, Disrupts Their Sexual Development
ScienceDaily (Apr. 16, 2002) — Berkeley – The nation’s top-selling weed killer, atrazine, disrupts the sexual development of frogs at concentrations 30 times lower than levels allowed by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), raising concerns about heavy use of the herbicide on corn, soybeans and other crops in the Midwest and around the world. (link)
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Toxic plastic polycarbonate water bottles?
April 12, 2008 by shananarocks
