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	FDA & bisphenol A

echeryl

6-8-2009 9:38 AM

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FDA panel Chairman secretly received $5 million donation for their research.

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/0b29d6ce-02c3-44d0-93e6-12b66c364391/EE163D89-52C2-448E-AA52-F9740036AFAE/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.consumeraffairs.com/news04/2009/05/bpa_fda.html" href="http://www.consumeraffairs.com/news04/2009/05/bpa_fda.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.consumeraffairs.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.consumeraffairs.com/news04/2009/05/bpa_fda.html">Despite accumulating evidence and moves by retailers to drop products
containing bisphenol A — commonly called BPA — the Food and Drug Administration’s official
position remains that the chemical can be safely used to make infant
formula bottle</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.consumeraffairs.com/news04/2009/05/bpa_fda.html">Now the <EM>Milwaukee Journal Sentinel</EM> reports that it has obtained <A class="iAs" classname="iAs" href="#" target="_blank" itxtdid="9489909">emails</A>
that it says show the FDA relied on chemical industry lobbyists to
help reach that conclusion</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.consumeraffairs.com/news04/2009/05/bpa_fda.html">In one case, the newspaper reports the FDA’s deputy director requested
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study the agency's position on the controversial found a lot to
criticize. While not taking a position on whether BPA is safe, the
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