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packman

(16,296 posts)
Wed Mar 12, 2014, 11:19 AM Mar 2014

Plastics-estrogen-and Babies


From a Mother Jones article tracing the history of BPA in plastics from the late 1930's - damnable, disgusting shit about the influence of industry and payoffs harming babies.


"Since the 1990s, a vast body of research has linked BPA and other chemicals found in plastics to serious health problems, ranging from cancer to infertility. But the industry—often using tactics pioneered by Big Tobacco as it sought to bury evidence about the health risks of smoking—has managed to shield these substances from federal regulation"

http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2014/03/regulatory-capture-bpa-plastic-estrogen-endocrine-disruptor-feds
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