University of Missouri researchers claim that previous lab tests have underestimated exposures to bisphenol A (BPA). (Press release|Study).
However, the study has a number of limitations which suggest that it is not applicable to humans: Continue reading Claim: BPA exposures underestimated
JunkScience.com is calling on U.S. Environmental Protection Agency administrator Lisa Jackson to publicly retract her false and inflammatory statement regarding mercury made on national TV last week. —>
It’s too bad prosecutors aren’t interested in public health accounting fraud? Continue reading Public health 'achievement': Accounting fraud in childhood lead poisoning prevention
Parents across America are being terrorized today by a new study reporting to have found a variety of flame retardants in baby products. Continue reading EEEK! I tawt I taw a fwame wetardant!
The grocery chain Kroger announced that it would ban the use of bisphenol A (BPA) in food packaging and receipts — even though there is no evidence that BPA in those products has ever harmed anyone and there is no evidence that BPA substitutes are safer.
Kroger’s move wasn’t based on science but alleged consumer concern. A spokesman said, :
The bottom line is if it makes customers happy to have BPA removed from the products they buy, then Kroger is doing what it can to make customers happy. This stuff could be perfectly safe, but if the customers think it’s not, then Kroger is making this move to keep them happy.
There was no word from Kroger as to whether it would also be banning products that actually do sicken and/or kill some people.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, food allergies cause 30,000 cases of anaphylaxis, 2,000 hospitalizations, and 150 deaths annually. There are eight foods that account for 90% of all food-allergy reactions cow’s milk, egg, peanut, tree nuts (for example, walnuts, pecans, almonds, and cashews), fish, shellfish, soybeans, and wheat, according to the CDC.
What do you think would have been a better course for Kroger to take?
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If you remember the 2004 “May I please have some more arsenic in my water, mommy?” campaign directed at President George W. Bush, this story is for you. Continue reading Arsenic Railroad: Next stop, heart disease
We’ve seen it all at JunkScience.com, and this has to be some sort of new low. Continue reading 'Study': BPA hurts babies; Oops, sample size=1
By Steve Milloy
There’s a new tale to be told in the annals of corporate greenwashing — so-called “BPA-free” cash register receipts. Continue reading BPA-free isn't
The American Academy of Pediatrics this week issued a ““Policy Statement — Chemical-Management Policy: Prioritizing Children’s Health.” If this is what pediatrics is becoming, maybe Christian Scientists have a point. Continue reading American Academy of Pediatrics prioritizes fear over facts
A commentary in this week’s New England Journal of Medicine spotlights how easy it is to forget basic scientific principles even when you’re on the Harvard Medical School faculty. Continue reading Earth to Harvard Med faculty: DES is not an 'endocrine disrupter'
by Steve Milloy
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