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From the NY Times

The Food and Drug Administration has raised its level of concern over the safety of bisphenol-A, or BPA, an industrial chemical found in baby bottles and the linings of canned goods and other consumer products. That is a welcome shift in attitude by an agency that seemed bent, during the Bush administration, on minimizing the potential for harm.

In August 2008, the Bush-era F.D.A. released a draft report asserting that the small amounts of BPA that leach into milk or food are not dangerous. One month later, the National Toxicology Program, an interagency assessment group, came to a less reassuring conclusion. It expressed “some concern” — midway between “negligible concern” and “serious concern” — about the potential effects on the brain, behavior and prostate in fetuses, infants and children. Now the F.D.A. has also expressed “some concern” about the same risks.

How harmful is BPA?  In truth no one knows for sure, but why would you want to take the risk?  Your best bet is to limit your exposure to BPA, and one way to do that is to use BPA Free Stainless Steel bottles from Klean Kanteen, and Stainless Steel Food Carriers from To-Go Ware.

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