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Dec. 6 EU: EU bans bisphenol A chemical from babies bottles

From: BBC News

The European Commission has announced a ban on the use of bisphenol A (BPA) in plastic baby bottles from next year…The commission cited fears that the compound could affect development and immune response in young children.

“There were areas of uncertainty, deriving from new studies, which showed that BPA might have an effect on development, immune response and tumour promotion,” Mr Dalli said in a statement.

EU states will outlaw the manufacture of polycarbonate feeding bottles containing the compound from March 2011, and ban their import and sale from June 2011, the Commission said.

Canada was the first country to declare bisphenol A toxic in October, after it was concluded that the chemical might have harmful effects on humans, as well as the environment and “its biological diversity”.

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