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Final National Toxicology Program Report Provides Sound Scientific Support
for Bisphenol A Safety Assessments
- September 4, 2008
Safety of Food-Contact Products Containing Bisphenol A
Reaffirmed by the US Food and Drug Administration
- August 20, 2008
European Food Safety Authority Reaffirms Safety of
Bisphenol A in Food Contact Products
- July 30, 2008
Are the Myths About Polycarbonate Bottles True?
New Information Supports the Safe Use of Polycarbonate Bottles
- February 5, 2008
Polycarbonate Bottles Are Still Safe For Use –
In Spite of the Latest Scare Story
- January 31, 2008
New Data from CDC Confirms Human Exposure to Bisphenol A
in the United States is Far Below Safe Limits
- November 1, 2007
August 8, 2007 - Sound Science Prevails in Review of Bisphenol A
August 2, 2007 - Public Health Best Served by Open, Transparent Scientific Evaluations
May 29, 2007 - City of San Francisco Repeals Ban on
Bisphenol A in Children’s Products
February 1, 2007 - European Food Safety Authority Increases Tolerable Daily Intake for Bisphenol A – Strong Support for Conclusion that Bisphenol A is Not a Risk to Human Health
December 19, 2006 - Scientific Assessment of Bisphenol A in Canada Coming Up in 2007
June 19, 2006 - Low Risk to Human Reproductive and Developmental Health from Low Doses of Bisphenol A Confirmed by New Weight-of-Evidence Evaluation
June 19, 2006 - Does San Francisco Know Something the Rest of the World Doesn’t? In a Word — No
May 12, 2006 - Greenpeace Ignores Their Own Advice to Look at the Evidence: Setting the Record Straight on Bisphenol A
May 5, 2006 - Are
Polycarbonate Bottles Safe for Use? New Information
on an Old Scare Story
April 12, 2006 - Legislation
to Ban Children's Products Defeated in
California, Maryland and Minnesota
March 20, 2006 - Comprehensive
Japanese Risk Assessment on Bisphenol A Confirms No
Risk to Human Health or Environment
September 26, 2005 - German
Biomonitoring Data Confirms Very Low Human Exposure
to Bisphenol A Around the World
May 4, 2005 - Biomonitoring
Studies Confirm Human Exposure to Bisphenol A is Very
Low - Low Exposure Supports Low Risk to Human Health
October 4,
2004 - "Bisphenol A: A Scientific Evaluation"
Concludes That Risk of Bisphenol A to Humans is Very
Low
September 3, 2004 -
Harvard Center for Risk Analysis Expert Panel Finds
No Consistent Affirmative Evidence of Low-Dose BPA Effects
April
1, 2003 - Relevance of Reported Chromosomal Effects
to Humans Has Not Been Established
November 7, 2002 -
“A Weight of Evidence Approach to the Aquatic
Hazard Assessment of Bisphenol A” concludes: Bisphenol
A Unlikely to Cause Adverse Effects in the Aquatic Environment
October 11,
2002 - Low-Dose Hypothesis Again Not Replicated
Reproducibility is Key Factor in Assessment of Potential
Endocrine Disruptors
August 21,
2002 - Weight-of-Evidence Assessment Concludes Bisphenol
A is Not a Carcinogenic Risk
June
25, 2002 - European Commission’s CSTEE Confirms
No Low-Dose Effects from BPA
July 15,
2002 - European Commission’s Scientific Committee
on Food Confirms That Products Made with Bisphenol A
Are Safe
July 2, 2002
- Definitive Peer-Reviewed Study Reports No Low-Dose
Effects
June 25, 2002 - European Commission's
CSTEE Confirms No Low - Dose Effects from BPA
May 8, 2002 European
Commission’s Scientific Committee on Food Confirms
That Products Made with Bisphenol A Are Safe
May 2, 2002 -
US and Japanese Regulatory Agencies View the Low-Dose
Hypothesis as Unproven
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