Just as BPA disrupts our hormones, Big Chem is doing everything
it can to disrupt the democratic process, using its money, power
and influence to block government action that would protect
pregnant women and children. On Friday, shortly after
California’s Environmental Protection Agency had announced its
decision to add BPA to its list of Prop 65 reproductive
toxicants, a judge ordered BPA off the same list. The judge
granted an injunction in the American Chemistry Council's case
against California’s Office of Environmental Health Hazard
Assessment. The chemical industry is trying to argue in court
that BPA does not cause birth defects. Prop 65 requires the
governor of California to publish, at least annually, a list of
chemicals known to the state to cause cancer or reproductive
toxicity and, in some instances, requires labeling of products
containing those chemicals. If BPA is safe, as the chemical
industry asserts, why would the FDA have banned it from baby
bottles and children’s drinking cups in 2012? Why