BPA, Chemical Used To Make Plastics, Found To Leach From Polycarbonate Drinking Bottles Into Humans

Friday, May 22, 2009 - 22:50 in Health & Medicine

Participants who drank for a week from polycarbonate bottles -- the popular, hard-plastic drinking bottles and baby bottles -- showed a two-thirds increase in their urine of the chemical bisphenol A, according to a new study. Exposure to BPA may have harmful health effects.

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