Toxic BPA found in 91% of Canadians

[Swede]

The Statistics Canada study, conducted in partnership with Health Canada, found that nine out of 10 Canadians aged six to 79, or 91 per cent of the population, have BPA in their urine. But young people aged 12 to 19 had an average level of 1.50 parts per billion — higher than the overall average of 1.16 parts per billion.


Younger children also brought up the national average (1.30 ppb), while their parents (ages 40 to 59) and their grandparents (ages 60 to 79) had lower levels of the toxin (1.04 and 0.90 ppb respectively) in their urine.



Read more: http://www.montrealgazette.com/health/Toxic+found+Canadians/3406073/story.html#ixzz0wpAiQmo8

[Vinnie From Indy]

1. It might help readers if you took just one sentence to explain what BPA is and why it is harmful

n/t

[Canuckistanian]

4. Bisphenol A

Known to be estrogenic since the mid 1930s, concerns about the use of bisphenol A in consumer products were regularly reported in the news media in 2008 after several governments issued reports questioning its safety, thus prompting some retailers to remove products containing it from their shelves. A 2010 report from the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) raised further concerns regarding exposure of fetuses, infants, and young children.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bisphenol_A

It's been banned in Canada for baby bottles and water bottles for about 2 years now.

[midnight armadillo]

2. Time to invade Canada

Clearly, their national health care system is a plot to slowly poison them all. Al Qaeda has taken over. Time to invade Canada and, for their own good, we'll secure the tar sands and the Northern passage first.

[Cleita]

10. I think it's time for them to invade us.

We need their health care. They need our beaches.

Fair trade?

[undeterred]

11. Our beaches are getting oily.

[PDJane]

3. It's a plastics chemical,

found in things like pop bottles, baby bottles, metal water bottles, tin can liners, plastic food containers, blah, blah, blah. I suspect that Americans have levels at least as much of the stuff in their bodies as Canadians, perhaps more.

*shrug* The wonders of modern chemistry. Especially since food products move freely over the border.

[KT2000]

5. Another example of other countries

doing a better job than the US on tackling environmental health issues.
US gets a big FAIL as many other nations have surpassed us in such research.

[rucky]

6. From the glaze on Tim Horton's donuts. n/t

[G_j]

7. I don't imagine

it would be any better for Americans.

[Canuckistanian]

8. I heard that this study's results were coming out today

But I had no idea it would be this bad.

It's on the CBC News front page.
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2010/08/16/bpa-bisphenol-levels-urine-contamination.html

[applegrove]

9. Apparently it doesn't stay in your system for long...so all of us injest it on a daily basis if the

percentage is 91%.