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Public exposure to BPA exceeds acceptable health safety levels

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A few things about BPA:

- It's used to line aluminum cans to prevent reactions with the contents of the cans. Think soda cans.

- It's the "toner" of thermal paper. Basically every modern receipt you get is a sheet of BPA dusted paper.

- The BPA alternatives are basically the same thing as BPA, similar in structure and function, and likely have the same negative health profile. However you get to proudly put "BPA Free!" on your product.

> It's the "toner" of thermal paper. Basically every modern receipt you get is a sheet of BPA dusted paper

Don't worry we're all good, we (EU) replaced it with BPS, which is equally as bad but can't be filtered by our liver nearly as good

Just switch everything to BPS. Problem solved for another decade until the studies appear showing that to also be poison.

I wish I were joking, but this is exactly how a ton of products became "BPA-free". The article does mention testing for BPS and BPF, but I don't know whether they're regulated similarly to BPA in the EU.

This is also likely tied to the age population bomb

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fendo.2021.7065...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5479690/

There are plenty of papers with similar conclusions.

Endocrine disrupters aren’t limited to BPA. “BPA free” items often contain other endocrine disrupters like BPS. It’s almost impossible to avoid some form of it now. It’s in food packaging, paper receipts, clothes, and much more. That’s ignoring other classes of pollutants like PFAS which you can find on cookware, clothing, and even dental floss.

I predict that artificial insemination will likely become more the norm in the future

Edit: let’s pretend that we can magically remove these pollutants from all new products in every country starting now. That still won’t eliminate the problem because it’s still in the environment and animals have been ingesting it. there is also giant source of it in the middle of the Pacific

Not only would the problem persist if we can magically remove these pollutants from all new products in every country starting now, but it would continue to get worse. The plastic in the pacific takes decades to break down. Every decade since the 50s we've produced more and more plastic. So its like a ticking time bomb, there's going to be more and more microplastics in the environment.

I can't help but wonder if these are contributing to the growing gender confusion in kids.

Shannon You was convicted and sentenced to 14 years in prison for industrial espionage regarding trade secrets related to formulations for bisphenol-A-free (BPA-free) coatings.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8ojlJoM0FE

Anyone found a practical way of avoiding PBA's and related compounds?

Not practical, but living off-grid, in the woods, without any plastics is all I can think of.

Steel bottle are a solution

also glass/metal food storage containers instead of plastic ones. And, always decline to take receipts at stores.

Honestly I want to say something to the employees at grocery stores... They are more exposed than any of us to PBAs on receipt paper.

they should be wearing gloves

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