2024: Need for regulatory changes

2024: Scientists call on the U.S. FDA and the German BfR to lower the BPA tolerable daily intake dose as well.

Vom Saal, F. S., Antoniou, M., Belcher, S. M., Bergman, A., Bhandari, R. K., Birnbaum, L. S., Cohen, A., Collins, T. J., Demeneix, B., Fine, A. M., Flaws, J. A., Gayrard, V., Goodson, W. H., 3rd, Gore, A. C., Heindel, J. J., Hunt, P. A., Iguchi, T., Kassotis, C. D., Kortenkamp, A., Mesnage, R., … Zoeller, R. T. (2024). The Conflict between Regulatory Agencies over the 20,000-Fold Lowering of the Tolerable Daily Intake (TDI) for Bisphenol A (BPA) by the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA)Environmental health perspectives132(4), 45001.

 

The cost of plastics and chemicals in plastics

Trasande, L., Krithivasan, R., Park, K., Obsekov, V., & Belliveau, M. (2024). Chemicals Used in Plastic Materials: An Estimate of the Attributable Disease Burden and Costs in the United StatesJournal of the Endocrine Society8(2), bvad163.