BPA In Your Food? The FDA's Still Okay With That.

This again just goes to show that the FDA is not a tool to keep you from harm but is instead a big pharma, big chem clearing house.  They are not in place to protect you, they are there to protect them.  This is the sad state of affairs in America today.

-Mort

Bisphenol A, a controversial chemical used in the lining of nearly all cans used by the food and beverage industry, got a reprieve from the government last week. Responding to a court order to decide on the Natural Resources Defense Council’s petition to ban the stuff on the grounds that it causes harm even in tiny doses, the Food and Drug Administrationrejected the petition and upheld its approval of BPA.

That’s good news for some of the globe’s biggest chemical companies. According to Bloomberg News, the global BPA market is worth about $8 billion, with about a quarter of total production going into cans. (The rest goes into polycarbonate plastics, which end up in everything from water bottles to DVDs.) Bloomberg adds that the three biggest suppliers of BPA to the American market are the chemical/steel giant Saudi Basic Industries Corp.—which is 70-percent-owned by the Saudi government—the German chemical giant Bayer, and Dow, its US rival. Globally, according to the US Department of Agriculture, Bayer and Dow produce “the bulk” of BPA.

Read more about this insanity at the source here:  http://motherjones.com/tom-philpott/2012/04/fda-bpa-cans-food-dow-bayer