BPA Safety: The Toxic Chemical Limbo Game

10/19/2022|Updated: 10/19/2022

For BPA, lead, and other toxic chemicals, accumulating science consistently lowers the levels we consider safe.

After careful evaluation of the latest science, European officials have proposed lowering the safe daily dose of bisphenol-A, or BPA, by a factor of 100,000.

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Lynne Peeples

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Peeples is a freelance science journalist and a former Environmental Health Reporter at HuffPost. She holds an M.S. in Biostatistics, and an M.A. Science Journalism.