Put the Bottle Down And Throw Out The Pseudo-Scientists, It's Poisonous

In another staggering instance of industry letting poisons out into public usage while designating them as benign, the chemical BPA which is used in food containers and baby bottles has been given a pass by scientists assigned to protect the public By manipulating the data, the review panel with the duty of finding out safety of the product has relegated negative findings to the trash heap and kept questionable information in its good graces. In its effort to keep industry profits safe in the face of its producting dangerous products, the NIH panel is poisoning babies.

Next week, a federally appointed panel of scientists is scheduled to finish its evaluation on the health risks of an industrial chemical, widely used in baby bottles, food cans and other consumer products, that many researchers believe poses risks to human reproduction and development.

The chemical in question, bisphenol A (BPA), the basic building block of polycarbonate plastic, also mimics the female hormone estrogen. An estimated 95 percent of Americans have it flowing through their bodies – and Texas is a major producer of the chemical.

Industry representatives insist that BPA, in its current use, does not pose a risk to human health. But experiments on lab rodents within the last decade have found that BPA decreases fertility in both sexes after adult exposure. It can also cause reproductive and behavioral problems when developing males and females are exposed to low doses in the womb.
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The Dallas Morning News confirmed – as several scientists noted in their public comments – that the review panel has so far retained a study, despite a failed "positive control" – an internal check that scientists use to confirm whether an experiment worked as intended.
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The News pointed out these omissions to Wade Welshons, a BPA researcher at the University of Missouri, who said they were a serious oversight.

"It gives a very incorrect, misleading summary of the literature," he said. "The effect is that it dilutes the impact of actual measures of BPA in human blood."

Your federal government at work, making the world safe for toxic substances. It is the opposite of the job they are paid to do, incidentally, to keep poisonous substances in our systems, and in our babies' systems. That is what they are there to prevent. This panel should be charged with criminal misconduct and endangerment. Unlike the Agricultural Department which awarded its staff for its failure to inspect our food, the National Institutes of Health which set up the National Toxicology Program panel, should fire the whole bunch of criminals and start over. A group of pseudo-scientitst that can't tell the difference between Do Protect and Don't Protect the citizens isn't fit to be in public service.