Makers of many other water bottles and containers have voluntarily stopped using bpa as well.
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Bpa stands for bisphenol a.
The european agency for food safety adopted recently a new risk assessment of the substance and significantly reduced the limit for daily recommended daily intake of 50 micrograms per kilogram.
Whether in food packaging cds toys thermal paper receipts plastic water bottles or jugs it is hard to escape the contact with the chemical bisphenol a bpa.
Bittner who is also founder of the testing company certichem.
We known it can cause hormonal changes and otherwise negatively.
You hear about it most when it comes to water bottles canned goods and receipts.
But as people drank from their water.
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Soon bpa was everywhere.
So while you may have had many products containing the chemical in your house a few decades ago it s.
Bpa is just one set of chemicals that have estrogenic activity he says.
Certichem found that 70 percent of products that are bpa free still leach ea chemicals into beverages and food.
Photo by kyle leboeuf bisphenol a bpa is a synthetic estrogen used in polycarbonate plastic products.
Bpa free products don t contain bpa but they still contain chemicals asserts dr.