{"id":1082,"date":"2009-07-08T14:10:24","date_gmt":"2009-07-08T13:10:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/antidote-europe.org\/?p=1082"},"modified":"2015-07-04T10:11:04","modified_gmt":"2015-07-04T09:11:04","slug":"bisphenol-a-chemical-time-bomb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antidote-europe.eu\/en\/bisphenol-a-chemical-time-bomb\/","title":{"rendered":"Bisphenol A, a chemical time bomb?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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It is difficult to understand why food safety agencies continue to place their trust in ambiguous animal data when human data is readily available. The fact thatDES\u00a0and\u00a0BPA\u00a0share striking similarities in their structures is extremely worrisome and lends weight to the possibility that\u00a0BPA\u00a0is a \u201cchemical time bomb\u201d in terms of our health.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Antidote Europe welcomes the decision by the French Secretary of State for Ecology, Ms Chantal Jouanno, to instruct the national Food Safety Agency (AFSSA) to take a closer look at the chemical bisphenol A (BPA).<\/p>\n

Laboratory results<\/a>\u00a0obtained by Antidote Europe suggest that\u00a0BPA\u00a0could be a \u201cchemical time bomb\u201d\u00a01<\/sup>. Originally manufactured in 1936 as a synthetic oestrogen for women, it was soon discarded and replaced by a much more powerful synthetic oestrogen, called diethyl stilbestrol (DES). Between the 1940s and the 1970s,\u00a0DES\u00a0was prescribed to 200 000 French women to prevent miscarriage, resulting in one of the biggest drug tragedies in modern times. In addition to causing malformations and cancer in the reproductive organs of children born to\u00a0DES\u00a0mothers, these effects were seen in some of their grandchildren as well, especially in girls. Unlike\u00a0DES, we are all unknowingly exposed to\u00a0BPA\u00a0on a daily basis because of its presence in so many manufactured articles, ranging from dummies to plastic drinking bottles and the linings of tinned food and beverages.\u00a0DES\u00a0and\u00a0BPA\u00a0share strikingly similar structures, hence the concern that\u00a0BPA\u00a0may have similar biological activity to\u00a0DES\u00a02<\/sup>.<\/p>\n

\u201cAccording to \u201cexperts\u201d\u2019:https:\/\/antidote-europe.eu\/cp25aou08_gb.htm who have largely relied on animal data,\u00a0BPA\u00a0poses only a \u201cmild\u201d or \u201cinsignificant\u201d risk to humans, despite the fact that this chemical continues to build up in our bodies. These same experts also tell us that pregnant women and their unborn foetuses have nothing to fear because \u201cpregnant women rapidly metabolise and excrete this chemical\u201d. Surely these experts must know that the speed at which a substance is broken down and passed out of the body has nothing to do with its biological activity while it is inside the body? Otherwise medical drugs would have no effect! This is a basic principle of pharmacokinetics (drug action).<\/p>\n

These facts have been conveyed to the French Minister for Ecology.<\/p>\n

1. See\u00a0https:\/\/antidote-europe.eu\/cp25jun07_gb.htm<\/a>\u00a0for registration of results in an international scientific database<\/p>\n

2. See\u00a0https:\/\/antidote-europe.eu\/bpa_gb.htm<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It is difficult to understand why food safety agencies continue to place their trust in ambiguous animal data when human data is readily available. The fact thatDES\u00a0and\u00a0BPA\u00a0share striking similarities in their structures is extremely worrisome and lends weight to the possibility that\u00a0BPA\u00a0is a \u201cchemical time bomb\u201d in terms of our health. 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