Common plastics chemical linked to human diseases

I am a selfish person.

I hope I have not become a scare mongerer. But we have bi Fooled by the chemical companies before. They have tested in animals and found that it is true in animals. BUT:

"But British researchers, who published their findings on Tuesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association, analyzed urine and blood samples from 1,455 U.S. adults aged 18 to 74 who were representative of the general population.

Using government health data, they found that the 25 percent of people with the highest levels of bisphenol A in their bodies were more than twice as likely to have heart disease and, or diabetes compared to the 25 percent of with the lowest levels."

AND

"In the study, the team said the chemical is present in more than 90 percent of people, suggesting there is not much that can be done to avoid the chemical of which over 2.2 million tons is produced each year."

Well there it is; read the full article by clicking the heading. Nice to feel that I who was born without estrogen can handle the situation, but my mum and sisters will be fucked, and I might suffer from heart disease and, or diabetes. Hai carumba.

Then I started on a mission into the druggies of the world. No man not the frigging addicts whome you find in street corners. The fecking Drugs Industry. The ICCA "The International Council of Chemical Associations" says in the about us bit:

"ICCA is the world-wide voice of the chemical industry, representing chemical manufacturers and producers all over the world. It accounts for more than 75 per cent of chemical manufacturing operations with a production exceeding USD 1,6 trillion annually. Almost 30 percent of this production is traded internationally. ICCA promotes and co-ordinates Responsible Care and other voluntary chemical industry initiatives."

1.6 trillion even in US dollars it is a lot init? So the bias of this organiisation is very transparent.

Then I found out that:

"Ask University of Missouri-Columbia scientists Frederick Vom Saal and Wade Welshons. They've been in the industry's crosshairs for more than a decade, since their experiments turned up the first hard evidence that miniscule amounts of bisphenol A (BPA), an artificial sex hormone and integral component of a vast array of plastic products, caused irreversible changes in the prostates of fetal mice.

Their findings touched off a steady drumbeat that has led to a ban on BPA-laden baby bottles in Canada, mounting support for a similar ban in the U.S., major retailers pulling plastic products off their shelves, a consumer run on glass baby bottles and a blizzard of scientific reports raising increasingly disturbing questions about the chemical's dangers at the trace levels to which people are routinely exposed"

Yep we in UK is still not sure about this as the article above claims. But in Canada this has been going on at least since 1997. Damn that is 10 years ago when I was young. But since 1930's the scientists have known "that BPA mimics estrogen in the body, for unrelated reasons, the chemical serves as an essential building block of hard, clear polycarbonate plastics and tough epoxy resins, ubiquitous materials in the modern world." Now that is bind moggling init? There goes my bottled water exercise. Good.

"What the Chemical Industry Doesn't Want You to Know about Everyday Products"

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