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Bottles sold as 'BPA-free' may not be

Posted by Safer States on Aug 3, 2009


Bottles may contain BPA Baby bottles marketed as "BPA-free" may actually contain the toxic chemical, testing by Canada's public health agency shows.

Nine bottle brands tested by Health Canada were found to contain bisphenol A - and two of the nine had high readings of the chemical, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports.

Canada banned BPA in baby bottles in 2008, but the United States has been slower to act. The Food and Drug Administration is expected to reconsider its long-held, and much-contested, position that BPA is safe by summer's end. On Friday, the US House of Representatives approved a bill that would order the US Department of Health and Human Services to determine BPA's health affects by the end of the year.

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