Reasons Why Purchasing BPA-Free Products is Important From the
Environmental Working Group's Website... The unusually broad
toxicity of BPA is explained by a prominent scientist as
stemming from the fact that BPA can alter the behavior of over
200 genes — more than one percent of all human genes (Myers
2006). These genes control the growth and repair of nearly every
organ and tissue in the body. Taken in its totality, the range
of toxic effects linked to BPA is startlingly similar to the
litany of human health problems on the rise or common across the
population, including breast and prostate cancer, diabetes,
obesity, infertility, and polycystic ovarian syndrome (Myers
2007). More recently, on August 30, 2011 the California State
Senate voted to ban the toxic plastics chemical bisphenol A from
baby bottles and sippy cups sold in California."Today's vote to
eliminate BPA from baby bottles and sippy cups is part of re-
asserting California's leadership on environmental health
protections,” said Martha Dina Argü