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Drinking from Plastic Bottles 'Increases Exposure to Gender-Bending Chemical'
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5-30-2009 3:24 AM
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BPA is also found in dentistry composites and sealants and in the lining of aluminium food and beverage cans.
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Michels, associate professor of epidemiology at HSPH and Harvard Medical School, said: "We found that drinking cold liquids from polycarbonate bottles for just one week increased urinary BPA levels by more than two-thirds.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.alternet.org/healthwellness/140203/drinking_from_plastic_bottles_%27increases_exposure_to_gender-bending_chemical%27/"><P>They were then given two polycarbonate bottles and asked to drink all cold beverages from the bottles during the next week.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.alternet.org/healthwellness/140203/drinking_from_plastic_bottles_%27increases_exposure_to_gender-bending_chemical%27/"><P>The results showed the volunteers' urinary BPA concentrations increased 69 per cent after drinking from the polycarbonate bottles.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;"> </td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/B7624FCF-D388-48D5-8840-3ED90C0E5F70/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>
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