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Most British Teenagers Have Been Exposed to BPA

posted by Fnord666 on Tuesday February 06 2018, @05:22PM   
from the stop-eating-the-packaging dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

86 per cent of teenagers have traces of Bisphenol A (BPA), a chemical compound used to make plastics, in their body, an Engaged Research public engagement project in collaboration with the University of Exeter has found.

Measurable levels of BPA, an endocrine-disrupting chemical, were found in the urine of the vast majority of the 94 17-19 year olds tested, according to research at the University of Exeter led by Professor Lorna Harries, Associate Professor in Molecular Genetics, and Professor Tamara Galloway, Professor of Ecotoxicology.

They called for better labelling of packaging to enable consumers to choose BPA-free products.

The citizen-science project was carried out in a real-world setting to provide young people with first-hand experience of all aspects of scientific research.

https://m.medicalxpress.com/news/2018-02-exposure-bisphenol-hard-everyday-life.html

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• Something Important Missing HereSomething Important Missing Here (Score: 2) by requerdanos on Wednesday February 07 2018, @01:38AM (3 children)

  by requerdanos (5997) on Wednesday February 07 2018, @01:38AM (#634239) Journal

  "86 per cent of teenagers have traces of Bisphenol A (BPA)" -- backed up by data. Good.

  "BPA, an endocrine-disrupting chemical" -- At what dose? What's the LD50 vs. how much they found in the teenpee? This seems like important, missing, data.

  "They called for better labelling of packaging to enable consumers to choose BPA-free products." -- And documented why? Or just made an unfounded assertion?

  Look, I am not saying that BPA is a yummy health food that we should all eat on crackers, but I do note that there appears to be quite the deficiency in useful data here.

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• Re:Something Important Missing Here(Score: 2) by Wootery on Wednesday February 07 2018, @10:11AM

  by Wootery (2341) on Wednesday February 07 2018, @10:11AM (#634354)

  Seconded. Is it concerning that they found trace amounts of this compound? Or are we alarmed simply because "Bisphenol A" happens to sound like a chemical weapon?

  RationalWiki has a term for this nonsense: https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Chemophobia [rationalwiki.org].

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• Re:Something Important Missing HereRe:Something Important Missing Here (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 07 2018, @11:10AM (1 child)

  by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 07 2018, @11:10AM (#634365)

  I bet they also found dihydrogen monoxide. Note that drinking large amounts of dihydrogen monoxide can kill you. [wikipedia.org]

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  • Re:Something Important Missing Here(Score: 2) by requerdanos on Wednesday February 07 2018, @04:19PM

    by requerdanos (5997) on Wednesday February 07 2018, @04:19PM (#634422) Journal

    I bet they also found dihydrogen monoxide.

    They aren't talking about this result much because of its explosive implications, but the leaked chart below should alarm any good chemophobe.

    /---------------------+----------------------------------------------------------\
    |.Evil.Chemical.......|.Percent.of.teen.pee.samples.containing.the.evil.chemical.|
    |---------------------+----------------------------------------------------------|
    |.Bisphenol.A.........|.....................86%..................................|
    |.Dihydrogen.Monoxide.|....................100%*.................................|
    |---------------------+----------------------------------------------------------|
    |.*.even.after.recalibrating.and.checking.lab.equipment!..Huge,.huge.poison......|
    \--------------------------------------------------------------------------------/

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