It’s been less than a month since the FDA rejected a ban on
bisphenol A (BPA) in food and beverage packaging – a massive
fail in our opinion. Other countries aren’t messing around with
this potentially harmful chemical though. On April 13, the
government of Sweden announced the decision to ban the use of
(BPA) in packaging for food intended for children under 3 years
of age. For a while, there’s been a voluntary phase-out of BPA
in Sweden, but these new laws will make sure the change becomes
permanent. Government officials say that this new chemical ban
will mostly, at this point, affect lids of baby food bottles but
the new mandate also gives the Swedish Chemicals Agency a
3-month deadline to decide if BPA should also be banned from
certain types of thermal paper, including receipts and tickets,
and to determine how BPA is being used in drinking-water pipes,
toys and children’s goods. A 2011 report (pdf) compiled by the
Swedish Chemicals Agency notes that when animals have been given
even very low doses of B