The Truth Behind Bpa In Plastic Bottles

According to several reports, everyone's favorite plastic bottle chemical to hate, bisphenol A (BPA), has permeated our currency. I guess that means your cash isn't safe to use anymore. No need to worry, just place all your filthy bills in an envelope and send them to me.

As much fun as it would be, I can't psych you out like that. This story is bogus. Actually the story is real, it's the "facts" that are more far-fetched than Warren Buffett moving into the poor house. Sure, BPA makes headlines, but why? How did a simple additive used to create polycarbonate (clear, strong, lightweight) plastic transform into an agent of sickness in the shape of a plastic bottle? Let's take a quick look back at some telling BPA facts.

The good times. BPA has been around since the late 1800s. A few more decades went by before it was first put to use in creating plastic bottles and other materials in the form of polycarbonate in the 1950s. Manufacturers and consumers alike enjoyed the benefits of BPA without issue for fifty years, then the health related rumors started to fly.

Lining cans for good. Canned goods, complete with epoxy resin linings (made with BPA), are often depicted as detrimental to health. These claims are ironic because it is the BPA lining that keeps the product safe for consumption. The epoxy resin in a can of beans won't give you cancer; it's in fact protecting you from botulism. In essence, eating canned goods without a BPA liner is more dangerous than consuming the lined goods with the supposed dangerous material.

Throw out the plastic bottles and anything else useful. Imagine a world with no BPA. Sure, some plastic bottles would disappear, but what other items would be absent? Your favorite pair of sunglasses, baseball bats, a lifelong collection of CDs and DVDs? We would never dream of contracting an illness through using these items, yet they're all made using BPA.

It goes right through you. Pardon the phrasing, but it's true. Some BPA "studies" claim that the damaging chemical accumulates in the human body. It is true that BPA can be ingested in minute amounts, but it's harmless and the chemical is extracted in less than 24 hours.

The icing on the cake. Here's the pinnacle of all BPA facts. Though countless news stories and reports have declared BPA as dangerous, not one peer reviewed study clearly proves that BPA is harmful for human health. So, take a drink from any plastic bottle you wish and ignore the he said/she said BPA jabber.

BPA was safely used for decades before it was ever targeted as a dangerous material. So, how did all of this bad press come about? Special interests have a way of making their competing interests or materials sound a lot scarier than they are. Fear prevails over facts, it creates a larger field of impact and is less expensive (both time and monetary wise). How much farther will people be strung along with the BPA lie? Remember, your money is in danger. Don't buy into the ghost stories any longer.

By: Kayla Holman

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