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<\/div>BPA PANIC<\/h2>
Is the plastic component bisphenol A (BPA) bad for you? It depends who you ask<\/a>.<\/p> Either way, though, consumers have gotten worried that the chemical could cause health problems such as metabolic disease to cancer. So over the past decade, many manufacturers started making plastic<\/a> with alternatives.<\/p> Unfortunately, though, that may not be much better: a new study<\/a> in the journal Current Biology<\/em> found that some of those BPA-free replacements cause similar health problems in mice — including effects that are passed down between generations.<\/p> Washington State University geneticist Patricia Hunt was conducting research on a totally different topic in 2003 when she first noticed the effects of BPA. The chemical was leaching out of cages in her lab and causing chromosomal abnormalities in mice.<\/p> Recently — and years after obtaining new mouse cages made from a BPA replacement — genetic abnormalities in the sex cells of lab mice.<\/p> It was “a strange déjà vu experience,” Hunt told Science<\/em><\/a>. “Our control studies started going wacko.”<\/p> Intrigued by the ill effects of the supposedly safe replacement cages, Hunt and her colleagues started a new experiment. They fed pregnant mice a range of BPA and alternatives. The results were bleak: the mice given two common BPA alternatives soon started to show genetic damage, including defects that showed up in their offspring — the same kind of damage as the mice who had been exposed to BPA.<\/p> Hunt’s work will need to be replicated and expanded to other BPA alternatives before we can draw conclusions. Plus, there’s still debate<\/a> over whether the chemical is harmful in the doses humans are exposed to.<\/p> But if Hunt’s results stand up to further testing, it could be a moment of reckoning for the plastic industry — or at least for its public relations departments.<\/p> READ MORE: <\/strong>BPA substitutes may be just as bad as the popular consumer plastic<\/a> [Science<\/em>]<\/p> More on BPA: A Possible Culprit in the Infertility Crisis: Plastic<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p> The post Plastics Made Without BPA Might Also Be Bad For You<\/a> appeared first on Futurism<\/a>.<\/p> Read the original here: BPA PANIC Is the plastic component bisphenol A (BPA) bad for you? Continue reading MOUSE MODEL<\/h2>
FAKE PLASTIC TREES<\/h2>
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